18. For your help will I send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits,
19. and as many fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill your children with joy.
20. Do right to the widow, judge the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
21. heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.
22. Keep the old and young within your walls.
23. Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.
24. Abide still, O my people, and take your rest, for your quietness shall come.
25. Nourish your children, O you good nurse, and establish their feet.
26. As for the servants whom I have given you, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among your number.
27. Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of tribulation and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.
28. The nations shall envy you, but they shall be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord.
29. My hands shall cover you, so that your children see not hell.
30. Be joyful, O you mother, with your children; for I will deliver you, says the Lord.
31. Remember your children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the secret places of the earth, and show mercy to them: for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty.
32. Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
33. I Esdras received a charge from the Lord upon the mount Horeb, that I should go to Israel; but when I came to them, they would none of me, and rejected the commandment of the Lord.
34. And therefore I say to you, O you⌃ nations, that hear and understand, look for your shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is near at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.