1 The Lord says, “I brought this people out of bondage. I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets, whom they would not listen to, but made my counsels void. (WEB) 2 The mother who bore them says to them, ‘Go your way, my children, for I am a widow and forsaken. (WEB) 3 I brought you up with gladness, and I have lost you with sorrow and heaviness, for you have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me. (WEB) 4 But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.’ (WEB) 5 As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness in addition to the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant, (WEB) 6 that you may bring them to confusion, and their mother to ruin, that they may have no offspring. (WEB) 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen. Let their names be blotted out of the earth, for they have despised my covenant. (WEB) 8 Woe to you, Assur, you who hide the unrighteous with you! You wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah, (WEB) 9 whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That is what I will also do to those who have not listened to me,” says the Lord Almighty. (WEB) 10 The Lord says to Esdras, “Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel. (WEB) 11 I will also take their glory back to myself, and give these the everlasting tabernacles which I had prepared for them. (WEB) 12 They will have the tree of life for fragrant perfume. They will neither labor nor be weary. (WEB) 13 Ask, and you will receive. Pray that your days may be few, that they may be shortened. The kingdom is already prepared for you. Watch! (WEB) 14 Call heaven and earth to witness. Call them to witness, for I have left out evil, and created the good, for I live, says the Lord. (WEB) 15 “Mother, embrace your children. I will bring them out with gladness like a dove does. Establish their feet, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. (WEB) 16 I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs, for I recognize my name in them. (WEB) 17 Don’t be afraid, you mother of children, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. (WEB) 18 For your help, I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits, (WEB) 19 and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, on which roses and lilies grow, with which I will fill your children with joy. (WEB) 20 Do right to the widow. Secure justice for the fatherless. Give to the poor. Defend the orphan. Clothe the naked. (WEB) 21 Heal the broken and the weak. Don’t laugh a lame man to scorn… (WEB)
2 Esdras 2:1–48
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2 Esdras 16:73–75
73 Then the trial of my elect will be made known, even as the gold that is tried in the fire. (WEB) 74 Hear, my elect ones, says the Lord: “Behold, the days of suffering are at hand, and I will deliver you from them. (WEB) 75 Don’t be afraid, and don’t doubt, for God is your guide. (WEB)
Baruch 4:4–6
4 O Israel, we are happy; for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us. (WEB) 5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. (WEB) 6 You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversari… (WEB)
Baruch 4:36–37
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2 Esdras 14:8–10
8 Lay up in your heart the signs that I have shown, the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard; (WEB) 9 for you will be taken away from men, and from now on you will live with my Son and with those who are like you, until the times have… (WEB) 10 … (WEB)
2 Esdras 13:28–30
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2 Esdras 15:20–22
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Baruch 4:26–28
26 My delicate ones have traveled rough roads. They were taken away like a flock carried off by enemies. (WEB) 27 Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you. (WEB) 28 For as it was your decision to go astray from God,… (WEB)
Psalms of Solomon 18:5–7
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