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2 Esdras 8:54-58 World English Bible (WEB)

54. sorrows are passed away, and in the end is showed the treasure of immortality.

55. Therefore ask you no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.

56. For when they had received liberty, they despised the Most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.

57. Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,

58. and said in their heart, that there is no God; yes, and that knowing they must die.

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