Common English Bible

2 Esdras 15:30-35 Common English Bible (CEB)

30. The Carmonians will go forth from the forest in furious rage. They will come with great force and engage them in battle, and they will destroy part of the Assyrians’ land with their teeth.

31. After this, the serpents will remember their origin and become strong. They will turn, united in great strength, to pursue them.

32. Their enemies will be confused and silent because of their power, and they will turn around and run away.

33. From the Assyrians’ land an enemy will attack them in an ambush and will kill one of them. Their army will fall into fear and terror and their kings into indecision.

34. Look! Angry storm clouds from the east and from the north to the south—their appearance is very terrible.

35. They will collide with each other and unleash a mighty tempest on the earth, their own tempest. Blood will flow as high as the belly of a horse,