38 Then I answered, “O sovereign Lord, all of us are full of ungodliness. (WEB) 39 Perhaps it is for our sakes that the threshing time of the righteous is kept back—because of the sins of those who dwell on the earth.” (WEB) 40 So he answered me, “Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the baby any longer within her.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:38–40
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2 Esdras 5:47–49
47 I said, “She can’t, but must do it each in their own time.” (WEB) 48 Then said he to me, “Even so, I have given the womb of the earth to those who are sown in it in their own times. (WEB) 49 For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, ev… (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:73–75
73 What then will they have to say in the judgment, or how will they answer in the last times? (WEB) 74 For how long a time has the Most High been patient with those who inhabit the world, and not for their sakes, but because of the times which he has foreordained!” (WEB) 75 I answ… (WEB)
1 Esdras 8:89–91
89 O Lord of Israel, you are true, for we are left a root this day. (WEB) 90 Behold, now we are before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you because of these things.” (WEB) 91 As Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat on the grou… (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:131–133
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2 Esdras 10:13–15
13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth. The multitude present in it has gone as it came. (WEB) 14 Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him… (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:40–42
40 Then said he to me, “Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so you can’t find out my judgment, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.” (WEB) 41 I said, “But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who are aliv… (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:16–18
16 Why haven’t you considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?” (WEB) 17 Then I answered and said, “O sovereign Lord, behold, you have ordained in your law that the righteous will inherit these things, but that the ungodly will perish. (WEB)
2 Esdras 15:26–28
26 For the Lord knows all those who trespass against him, therefore he will deliver them to death and destruction. (WEB) 27 For now evils have come upon the whole earth, and you will remain in them; for God will not deliver you, because you have sinned against him. (WEB) 28 Behold,… (WEB)
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