57 Your children will die of hunger. You will fall by the sword. Your cities will be broken down, and all your people in the field will perish by the sword. (WEB) 58 Those who are in the mountains will die of hunger, eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, because of hunger for bread and thirst for water. (WEB) 59 You, unhappy above all others, will come and will again receive evils. (WEB)
2 Esdras 15:57–59
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