1. In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (the same is Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
2. for I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of them that lived at Babylon.
3. And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said,