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And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,
These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
And now I say unto thee,
That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:
For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,
Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
Then answered I before thee, and said,
Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.
But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.
But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are ready to write swiftly;
Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
Hear these words, O Israel.
Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.
For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
Let no man therefore come unto me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people:
For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:
And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.
For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.
Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
Therefore saith the Lord,
And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:
Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.
And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall come upon them.
And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east and west wind, shall be destroyed.
Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.
And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon, and make her afraid.
And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.
And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:
Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith God,
I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.
Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,
Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?
Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief
Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.
They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.
Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea, and receive plagues again.
And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be unto thee as fire;
And shall consume thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.