Common English Bible

2 Esdras 2:25-32 Common English Bible (CEB)

25. Good nurse, nourish your children. Strengthen those whom you bore and make their feet steady,

26. because none of those whom I have given you will perish. I will require them from your number.

27. Give it your all! Strengthen them! Days of pressure and anguish will come; others will weep and be sad, but you will be happy and have plenty.

28. All the nations will be jealous of you, but they won’t be able to do anything against you, says the Lord.

29. All things tremble before me; my eyes see the pit of hell.

30. Rejoice, mother, with your children, and I will rescue you, says the Lord.

31. I will remember your children who sleep, because I will seek them out from the breadth of the earth. Strengthen them in the abundance of your glory and show mercy, because I am merciful, says the Lord.

32. Embrace those born from you until I come, and show mercy to the others, because my springs will overflow and my favor won’t fail.