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2 Esdras 15:28-44 World English Bible (WEB)

28. Behold, a vision horrible, and the appearance thereof from the east!

29. And the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and from the day that they set forth the hissing of them is carried over the earth, so that all they which shall hear them may fear also and tremble.

30. Also the Carmonians 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 with their teeth.

31. 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,

32. then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.

33. And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their host shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.

34. Behold, clouds from the east and from the north to the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.

35. They shall dash one against another, and they shall pour out a plentiful storm upon the earth, even their own star; and there shall be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly,

36. and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hough.

37. And there shall be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth: and they that see that wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall take hold upon them.

38. And after this shall there be stirred up great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.

39. And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the star that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be violently driven toward the south and west.

40. And great clouds and mighty and full of wrath shall be lifted up, and the star, that they may destroy all the earth, and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent one a terrible star,

41. fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters.

42. And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.

43. And they shall go on stedfastly to Babylon, and destroy her.

44. They shall come to her, and compass her about; the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up to the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.

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