2 Esdras 15:34-45
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Judgment on Babylon
34 See the clouds from the east and from the north to the south! Their appearance is exceedingly threatening, full of wrath and storm.(A) 35 They shall clash against one another and shall pour out a heavy tempest on the earth and their own tempest,[a] and there shall be blood from the sword as high as a horse’s belly(B) 36 and a man’s thigh and a camel’s hock. 37 And there shall be fear and great trembling on the earth; those who see that wrath shall be horror-stricken, and they shall be seized with trembling. 38 After that, heavy storm clouds shall be stirred up from the south and from the north and another part from the west.(C) 39 But the winds from the east shall prevail over the cloud that was[b] raised in wrath and shall dispel it, and the tempest[c] that was to cause destruction by the east wind shall be driven violently toward the south and west.(D) 40 Great and mighty clouds full of wrath and tempest[d] shall rise and destroy all the earth and its inhabitants and shall pour out upon every high and lofty place[e] a terrible tempest,[f](E) 41 fire and hail and flying swords and floods of water, so that all the fields and all the streams shall be filled with the abundance of those waters. 42 They shall destroy cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the forests, and grass of the meadows and their grain. 43 They shall go on steadily to Babylon and blot it out.(F) 44 They shall come to it and surround it; they shall pour out on it the tempest[g] and all its fury;[h] then the dust and smoke shall reach the sky, and all who are around it shall mourn for it.(G) 45 And those who survive shall serve those who have destroyed it.
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