World English Bible

2 Esdras 16:33-41 World English Bible (WEB)

33. The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.

34. In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.

35. Hear now these things, and understand them, you⌃ servants of the Lord.

36. Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: disbelieve not the things whereof the Lord speaks.

37. Behold, the evils draw near, and are not slack.

38. Like as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draweth near, within two or three hours doleful pains compass her womb, and when the child comes forth from the womb, there shall be no tarrying for a moment:

39. even so shall not the evils be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall groan, and sorrows shall take hold of it on every side.

40. O my people, hear my word: make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.

41. He that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth away: and he that buys, as one that will lose: