38. and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.
39. And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;
40. these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
41. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,
42. that they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
43. And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates.
44. For the Most High then wrought signs for them, and stayed the springs of the River, till they were passed over.
45. For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arzareth.
46. Then lived they there until the latter time; and now when they begin to come again,
47. the Most High stays the springs of the River again, that they may go through: therefore saw you the multitude gathered together with peace.
48. But those that be left behind of your people are they that are found within my holy border.
49. It shall be therefore when he shall destroy the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend the people that remain.