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2 Esdras 15:45-53 World English Bible (WEB)

45. And they that remain shall do service to them that have put her in fear.

46. And you, Asia, that are partaker in the beauty of Babylon, and in the glory of her person:

47. woe to you, you wretch, because you have made yourself like to her; you have decked your daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in your lovers, which have always desired you to commit whoredom withal!

48. You have followed her that is hateful in all her works and inventions: therefore says God,

49. I will send evils upon you; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste your houses to destruction and death.

50. And the glory of your power shall be dried up as a flower, when the heat shall arise that is sent over you.

51. You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and your lovers you shall not be able to receive.

52. Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against you, says the Lord,

53. if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of your hands, and saying over their dead, when you were drunken,

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