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2 Esdras 15:32-42 Common English Bible (CEB)

32. Their enemies will be confused and silent because of their power, and they will turn around and run away.

33. From the Assyrians’ land an enemy will attack them in an ambush and will kill one of them. Their army will fall into fear and terror and their kings into indecision.

34. Look! Angry storm clouds from the east and from the north to the south—their appearance is very terrible.

35. They will collide with each other and unleash a mighty tempest on the earth, their own tempest. Blood will flow as high as the belly of a horse,

36. a man’s thigh, and a camel’s hock because of their swords. Great fear and terror will be on earth.

37. Those who see that wrath will be horrified and seized by fear.

38. After this, the mighty clouds will be moved from the south and the north, and another portion from the west.

39. But the winds from the east will prevail and will stop them, together with the cloud it had stirred up in wrath. The tempest that was to cause destruction will be driven violently from the east to the west.

40. Great, angry storm clouds will be raised up so that they may destroy the whole earth and its inhabitants, and they will unleash over every high and lofty place a terrible tempest—

41. fire and hail, flying swords, and much water—so that all the fields and all the streams will be filled with the great quantity of those waters.

42. They will destroy cities, walls, mountains and hills, trees in the forests, grass in the meadows, and their grain.

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