4 then will you understand that the Most High spoke of these things from the days that were of old, from the beginning. (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:4
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Job 20:3–5
3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply. 4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth, 5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Sirach 48:24–25
24 He saw by an excellent spirit what would come to pass in the future; and he comforted those who mourned in Zion. (WEB) 25 He showed the things that would happen through the end of time, and the hidden things before they came. (WEB)
2 Esdras 13:17–19
17 For those who were not left will be in heaviness, (WEB) 18 understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days, but not attaining to them. (WEB) 19 But woe to them also who are left, because they will see great perils and much distress, like these dreams declare. (WEB)
Judith 9:4–6
4 and gave their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among your dear children; which were moved with zeal for you, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon you for aid. O God, O my God, hear… (WEB)
Isaiah 48:5–7
5 Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’ 6 You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them?… 7 …
Book of Enoch 37:2–4
2 And this is the beginning of the words of wisdom which I lifted up my voice to speak and say to those which dwell on earth: Hear, ye men of old time, and see, ye that come after, the words of the Holy One which I will speak before the Lord of Spirits. (ENO) 3 It were… (ENO) 4 … (ENO)
2 Baruch 44:5–7
5 And see ye what hath befallen Zion, And what hath happened to Jerusalem. (2BA) 6 For the judgement of the Mighty One shall (thereby) be made known, And His ways, which, though past finding out, are right. (2BA) 7 For if ye endure and persevere in His fear, And do not forget Hi… (2BA)
Book of Enoch 39:10–12
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