that the end of their times might come through them?
2 Esdr 11:40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and had power over the world with great fearfulness, and over the whole compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so long time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit.
2 Esdr 11:41 For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
2 Esdr 11:42 For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of such as did thee no harm.
2 Esdr 11:43 Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the Highest, and thy pride unto the Mighty.
2 Esdr 11:44 The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and, behold, they are ended, and his abominations are fulfilled.
2 Esdr 11:45 And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible wings, nor thy wicked feathers nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, nor all thy vain body:
2 Esdr 11:46 That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and mercy of him that made her.
2 Esdr 12:1 And it came to pass, whiles the lion spake these words unto the eagle, I saw,
2 Esdr 12:2 And, behold, the head that remained and the four wings appeared no more, and the two went unto it and set themselves up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and fill of uproar.
2 Esdr 12:3 And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burnt so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I out of the trouble and trance of my mind, and from great fear, and said unto my spirit,
2 Esdr 12:4 Lo, this hast thou done unto me, in that thou searchest out the ways of the Highest.
2 Esdr 12:5
Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted this night.
2 Esdr 12:6 Therefore will I now beseech the Highest, that he will comfort me unto the end.
2 Esdr 12:7 And I said, Lord that bearest rule, if I have found grace before thy sight, and if I am justified with thee before many others, and if my prayer indeed be come up before thy face;
2 Esdr 12:8 Comfort me then, and shew me thy servant the interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision, that thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul.
2 Esdr 12:9 For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times.
2 Esdr 12:10 And he said unto me, This is the interpretation of the vision:
2 Esdr 12:11 The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.
2 Esdr 12:12 But it was not expounded unto him, therefore now I declare it unto thee.
2 Esdr 12:13 Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
2 Esdr 12:14 In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:
2 Esdr 12:15 Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
2 Esdr 12:16 And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest.
2 Esdr 12:17 As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdr 12:18 That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.
2 Esdr 12:19 And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdr 12:20 That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift.
2 Esdr 12:21 And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching: four shall be kept until their end begin to approach: but two shall be kept unto the end.
2 Esdr 12:22 And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, this is the interpretation:
2 Esdr 12:23 In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth,
2 Esdr 12:24 And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
2 Esdr 12:25 For these are they that shall accomplish his wickedness, and that shall finish his last end.
2 Esdr 12:26 And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no more, it signifieth that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
2 Esdr 12:27 For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
2 Esdr 12:28 For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself.
2 Esdr 12:29 And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the wings passing over the head that is on the right side;
2 Esdr 12:30 It signifieth that these are they, whom the Highest hath kept unto their end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as thou sawest.
2 Esdr 12:31 And the lion, whom thou sawest rising up out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard;
2 Esdr 12:32 This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them with their cruelty.
2 Esdr 12:33 For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them.
2 Esdr 12:34 For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the the beginning.
2 Esdr 12:35 This is the dream that thou sawest, and these are the interpretations.
2 Esdr 12:36 Thou only hast been meet to know this secret of the Highest.
2 Esdr 12:37 Therefore write all these things that thou hast seen in a book, and hide them:
2 Esdr 12:38 And teach them to the wise of the people, whose hearts thou knowest may comprehend and keep these secrets.
2 Esdr 12:39 But wait thou here thyself yet seven days more, that it may be shewed thee, whatsoever it pleaseth the Highest to declare unto thee. And with that he went his way.
2 Esdr 12:40 And it came to pass, when all the people saw that the seven days were past, and I not come again into the city, they gathered them all together, from the least unto the greatest, and came unto me, and said,
2 Esdr 12:41 What have we offended thee? and what evil have we done against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place?
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