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2nd Esdras 2 C

V6

Nourish your children, O you good nurse; stablish their feet. As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number. Be not weary: for when the day of trouble and heaviness comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance. The heathen shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says Yah-Who-Ah. My hands shall cover you, so that your children shall not see hell. Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says Yah-Who-Ah. Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy unto them: for I am merciful, says the Almighty Yah-Who-Ah. Embrace your children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail. I Esdras received a charge of Yah-Who-Ah upon the mount Oreb, that I should go unto Israel; but when I came unto them, they set me at nought, and despised the commandment of Yah-Who-Ah. And therefore I say unto you, O you 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. Be ready to the reward of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore. Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I testify my Saviour openly.