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2 Esdras 15:32-45 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

32. who will be thrown into panic, beaten into silence, and forced to turn and run.

33. The wild boars will be ambushed in Assyria, and one of them will be killed. This will bring fear and panic to their army and indecision to their kings.

34. Then suddenly clouds — terrible, angry storm clouds — will cover the sky from one end to the other.

35. They will collide head-on and release their violence upon the earth. The blood of war will be as deep as a horse's belly

36. or a human thigh or a camel's knee.

37. Everywhere on earth people will tremble in fear at the horrible sight.

38. Then great storm clouds will move in from the north and the south, and others from the west.

39. But the winds from the east will prevail and push back those angry storm clouds that were about to bring destruction.

40-41. Huge, powerful, angry storm clouds will arise and ruin the whole world and its people. A terrible storm of fire, hail, and flashing swords will come sweeping down on those who have power and authority. Every river will overflow into the fields, and the floods

42. will demolish cities, walls, mountains, hills, forests, and crops.

43-44. This destruction will press on until it reaches Babylon and engulfs it in a raging storm of ruin. The dust and the smoke will form a great cloud reaching to the sky, and all the neighbouring cities will mourn for Babylon.

45. Anyone who survives will become a slave to those who destroyed the city.

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