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2 Esdras 16:72-78 World English Bible (WEB)

72. For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.

73. Then shall be manifest the trial of mine elect; even as the gold that is tried in the fire.

74. Hear, O you⌃ mine elect, says the Lord: behold, the days of tribulation are at hand, and I will deliver you from them.

75. Be you⌃ not afraid, neither doubt; for God is your guide:

76. and you⌃ who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your iniquities lift up themselves.

77. Woe to them that are fast bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities, like as a field is fast bound with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

78. It is even shut off, and given up to be consumed of fire.