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I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, When ye were in the wilderness, in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name,
I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.
What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob? thou, Juda, wouldest not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and unto those will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.
I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord.
And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.
Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet shall believe me; to whom I have shewed no signs, yet they shall do that I have commanded them.
They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their sins to remembrance, and acknowledge them.
And now, brother, behold what glory; and see the people that come from the east:
The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye children; for I am a widow and forsaken.
But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.
Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.
Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.
Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel.
Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.
And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my name in Israel.
Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits,
Keep the old and young within thy walls.
Wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I will give thee the first place in my resurrection.
As for the servants whom I have given thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number.
The heathen shall envy thee, but they shall be able to do nothing against thee, saith the Lord.
My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children shall not see hell.
Be joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
And therefore I say unto you, O ye heathen, that hear and understand, look for your Shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
Arise up and stand, behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;
Which are departed from the shadow of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord.
Take thy number, O Sion, and shut up those of thine that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
So I asked the angel, and said, Sir, what are these?
Then said I unto the angel, What young person is it that crowneth them, and giveth them palms in their hands?
Then the angel said unto me, Go thy way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.
In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city I was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
For I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of them that dwelt at Babylon.
And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the most High, and said,
And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.
And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.
And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.
And it happened, that when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children, and were a great people, they began again to be more ungodly than the first.
Now when they lived so wickedly before thee, thou didst choose thee a man from among them, whose name was Abraham.
And it came to pass, that when thou leadest his seed out of Egypt, thou broughtest them up to the mount Sinai.
And thy glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that thou mightest give the law unto the seed of Jacob, and diligence unto the generation of Israel.
And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth fruit in them.
For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.
So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then didst thou raise thee up a servant, called David:
Whom thou commandedst to build a city unto thy name, and to offer incense and oblations unto thee therein.
When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee,
And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart:
And so thou gavest thy city over into the hands of thine enemies.
Are their deeds then any better that inhabit Babylon, that they should therefore have the dominion over Sion?
I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?
Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel? or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?
And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.
Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and their’s also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel.
Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?
Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.
And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,
And said, Thy heart hath gone to far in this world, and thinkest thou to comprehend the way of the most High?
And I said, Tell on, my lord. Then said he unto me, Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.
Then answered I and said, What man is able to do that, that thou shouldest ask such things of me?