Good News Bible Anglicised

2 Esdras 6:22-32 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

22. Sown fields will suddenly become bare, and full barns will suddenly become empty.

23. Then the trumpet will sound, and sudden terror will grip the hearts of all who hear it.

24. Friends will fight like enemies, and the earth and its people will be terrified. Rivers will stop flowing and stand still for three hours.

25. “Those who survive all these things that I have predicted will be rescued when I bring to an end this world that I created.

26. They will see the men who never died but were taken up alive into heaven. The hearts and minds of people on earth will be changed.

27. Evil will be destroyed and deceit eliminated.

28. Faith will grow strong, corruption will be overcome, and truth, which has not produced fruit for so long, will make itself felt again.”

29. While the voice was speaking, the ground beneath me began to rock to and fro.

30. Then the angel said to me, “These are the things that I have come to show you tonight.

31. Now if you will pray and fast for seven more days, I will come back and tell you even greater things,

32. because God Most High has heard your prayer; the Mighty God has seen the pure and righteous life that you have lived since your youth.