Woe Unto The World
2 Esdras 15:5-27
[5]Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
[6]For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
[7]Therefore saith the Lord,
[8]I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.
[9]And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
[10]Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
[11]But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
[12]Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
[13]They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
[14]Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
[15]For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
[16]For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.
[17]A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
[18]For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
[19]A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
[20]Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
[21]Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
[22]My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
[23]The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
[24]Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
[25]I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
[26]For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
[27]For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.