22: Thus saith the Almighty Lord, When ye were in the wilderness, in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name, 35: That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so. woe is me! 46: I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning. 4 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building. 31: And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt 46: But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son. 56: Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief The king should know that the Jews who came up to us from … 34: And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting. 54: Consider thou therefore also, how that ye are less of stature than those that were before you. 15: Then came there a voice unto it, and said, 67: For if he shall not multiply his mercies, the world would not continue with them that inherit therein. 57: He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath measured the sea, and what it containeth. 59: For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live. 37: And I beheld, and lo, as it were a roaring lion chased out of the wood: and I saw that he sent out a man’s voice unto the eagle, and said, 26: The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind. 15: For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands. 51: Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills: 25: And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write. 54: Set forth the beauty of thy countenance? 38: As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment: 30: Take thou no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love them that always put their trust in thy righteousness and glory. 28: For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years. 14: I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have ye forgotten me, saith the Lord. 36: And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the most High. I will cast you out from my face. 41: But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, 41: Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters. 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. 6: May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? He returns the sacred temple vessels stolen by the Babylonians and personally bankrolls the whole building project from his treasury 25: What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? 46: And gavest them a charge to do service unto man, that was to be made. 43: For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made. 59: He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it. 32: And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough. 55: And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see: 19: Then answered I before thee, and said, 46: Then said I unto the angel, What young person is it that crowneth them, and giveth them palms in their hands? O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha; C ommentators on 4 Ezra regularly observe that a messianic figure fails to appear anywhere in the first three episodes of the book, with the exception of a brief description of his interim role in the summary of eschatological events at 7:28–9. 17: Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land. 8: And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob’s hand held first the heel of Esau. Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who brought us here, was the Assyrian mono arch who aggressively pursued the policy of partial deportation and to whose reign these enemies could trace their ancestry in Palestine. and reigned, and had a great time; 7. in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, &c.--The three officers named are supposed to have been deputy governors appointed by the king of Persia over all the provinces subject to his empire west of the Euphrates. 12: Then said I unto him, It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore. 2: And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet. 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. 11: Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one? 65: And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day. The King James Bible Translators Preface 1611 AD, Dedication Letter from the Translators to King James, The Missing Parts of the King James Bible, Pontius Pilate’s Letter to Tiberius Caesar. or why was not my mother’s womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel? 70: There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable multitude. 33: And now are ye here, and your brethren among you. 15: The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country. 24: There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it 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; Discussion It is most unfortunate that the Jewish leaders active in the failed attempt to rebuild the city walls in Ezra 4 are not named, but we have an important clue to their identity. 57: And now, O Lord, behold, these heathen, which have ever been reputed as nothing, have begun to be lords over us, and to devour us. 12: They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary. They were writing to deal with problem of religious chaos that arose from the destruction of the Temple and the city. 21: For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him. 50: And then shall he shew them great wonders. 4 Ezra (Apocrypha), chapter 5 . 37: O receive the gift that is given you, and be glad, giving thanks unto him that hath led you to the heavenly kingdom. 24: Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! 69: And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions, 42: And he said unto me, I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first. 31: And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them, 22: And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty: 23: I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet. 26: Whensoever ye shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter. or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob? 50: So the people went their way into the city, like as I commanded them: Ezra Chapter 1 is written much like a historical account of the rebuilding of Jerusalem from 536 to 436 BC. 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. he shall thunder, and who shall not be afraid? 35: For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss. 42: But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city builded. 29: Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered: and why art thou moved, whereas thou art but mortal? 45: He answered and said unto me, These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms. 30: Be joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will deliver thee, saith the Lord. 18: And bowing the heavens, thou didst set fast the earth, movedst the whole world, and madest the depths to tremble, and troubledst the men of that age. NEHEMIAH SUMMARY. 57: Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field. 1: In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city I was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart: Chapter 4 The good work of rebuilding the temple was no sooner begun than it met with opposition from those that bore ill will to it; the Samaritans were enemies to the Jews and their religion, and they set themselves to obstruct it. 1: Nevertheless as coming the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith. 1: Nevertheless as coming the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith. 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. 5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. 19: Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare. 10: And shall be sought of many, and yet not be found: then shall unrighteousness and incontinency be multiplied upon earth. 2: The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye children; for I am a widow and forsaken. 32: Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel? 42: The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread. 11: And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it; 15: Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee. 25: I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary. Summary of Persian kings named in Ezra 4 showing that Darius in vs. 24 is the same as Darius in vs. 5. 14: And it shall be as it were a great motion; but the place where thou standest shall not be moved. 4: But if the most High grant thee to live, thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day: 38: Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Highest shall say unto thee, 56: In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them. 15: And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times. 19: And he said unto me. 35: And I beheld, and, lo, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side. 7: But I would have seen the region or place whereout the hill was graven, and I could not. 7: And he said unto me, If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: 52: But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when. Composed in Hebrew and Aramaic, its subject is the Return … 3: And I beheld, and, lo, that man waxed strong with the thousands of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all the things trembled that were seen under him. 26: Then answered he me, and said, The more thou searchest, the more thou shalt marvel; for the world hasteth fast to pass away, 52: Say unto her, Wherefore are unto they whom thou hast now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature? 15: Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve. 32: Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail. 47: For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation. 70: For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord. 59: If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? and what evil have we done against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place? 21: For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwelleth above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens. 45: Be not wroth with us but spare thy people, and have mercy upon thine own inheritance: for thou art merciful unto thy creature. 38: And teach them to the wise of the people, whose hearts thou knowest may comprehend and keep these secrets. 55: Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created. 7: Therefore saith the Lord, 47: The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace. 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. 12: But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows; 29: For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me. 28: Hear these words, O Israel. be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem. The first is the powerful transformative moment of the grieving mother who becomes the city, which has been translated in Orthodox worship to a dramatic and transformative liturgical moment at Pascha. Book of Ezra and Nehemiah covers the events of the Jews returning from the Babylonian captivity. 28: And now, O Lord, why hast thou given this one people over unto many? 22: Keep the old and young within thy walls. Au cours de cette saison nous allons … 32: And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them. 28: Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east: 11: And I numbered her contrary feathers, and, behold, there were eight of them. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me. 26: As for the servants whom I have given thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number. 34: And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me. 25: When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee, 3: Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world: 31: Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword. 13: Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption, 15: So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet. 27: And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities. 39: Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas, 8: Peradventure thou wouldest say unto me, I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven. 13: To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shalt hear yet greater things. 38: And I said, O Lord that bearest rule, who may know these things, but he that hath not his dwelling with men? 40: Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people. 21: I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? 4 Ezra consists of seven visions of Ezra the scribe. 53: Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things: Opposition to the Rebuilding. 9: Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day wherethrough thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them. 34: And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins pain me every hour, while I labour to comprehend the way of the most High, and to seek out part of his judgment. 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. 12: Thou broughtest it up with thy righteousness, and nurturedst it in thy law, and reformedst it with thy judgment. 47: And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem. Ezra 4 1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel, 2 they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, "Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here." 18: Up then, and eat bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves. 11: And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid. It is also often noted that nowhere in 4 Ezra is the Messiah portrayed as ruling as king, despite mention of his Davidic descent at 12:32. 42: Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth: six pats hast thou dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee. 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. 14: And it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, like as the first, so that it appeared no more. 20: That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift. 15: Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry; 33: For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee, shall out of their own deeds receive reward. if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad? 27: And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm; 30: For I have seen how thou sufferest them sinning, and hast spared wicked doers: and hast destroyed thy people, and hast preserved thine enemies, and hast not signified it. 9: For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended. 23: He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty. 32: And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending. 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch used pseudonymity to identify with the living prophetic tradition and the apocalyptic genre to convey new revelatory content on the nature of reality. 57: Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time; 7: And now I say unto thee, and why is thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart? ; and when wild animals became a threatening problem after many of the people were carried away by Assyria, the Assyrian kings repeopled the land with non … 49: Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman: 31: Remember thy children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy unto them: for I am merciful, saith the Lord Almighty. 4 Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee; be of good courage, and do it.' 5: And ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the inventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure: 18: But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come. 31: What aileth thee? "Let us build with you, for we seek your God, as ye do" (Ezra 4:2). 32: Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through their power, and shall flee. 9: For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth. 24: But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only;) 41: He that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth away: and he that buyeth, as one that will lose: 42: I answered then and said, If I have found grace, let me speak. for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees. 1: Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord: And he answered me, and said, I am sent to shew thee three ways, and to set forth three similitudes before thee: 21: And after seven days so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again, 5: And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee. 9: And salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber, 6: But I beheld, and, lo, he had graved himself a great mountain, and flew up upon it. 38: And I said, O Lord, thou spakest from the beginning of the creation, even the first day, and saidst thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and thy word was a perfect work. thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light. 3: A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back? 8: And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once. 11: Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men. 1: And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer, A chapter by chapter and verse by verse study of Ezra taught by Pastor Paul LeBoutillier of Calvary Chapel Ontario, Oregon. 64: And that he is patient, and long suffereth those that have sinned, as his creatures; 23: Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but thou shalt not fast in them, 27: For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched. 10:20), where the message was that “the remnant” would return, not only to Jerusalem but to the Lord. for he hath caused me to fall into many trances, and mine end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke. BOOK OF EZRA KEY VERSES:. 36: Thou only hast been meet to know this secret of the Highest. 34: But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort ruled upon the earth, and over those that dwelt therein. 35: Be ready to the reward of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore. 39: Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her, Then answered I and said, 32: For if thou hast a desire to have mercy upon us, thou shalt be called merciful, to us namely, that have no works of righteousness. 4: But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other, yet rested it with the residue. 10: For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old. and upon the one root hast thou prepared others, and why hast thou scattered thy only one people among many? 37: Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force. 29: That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye would be my children, and I should be your father? 48: O thou Adam, what hast thou done? 6: Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs. 25: And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things. 29: O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt. 40: Like as I have spoken now, so shall it come to pass. Struggle, success and Restoration. 29: Let it not be thy will to destroy them which have lived like beasts; but to look upon them that have clearly taught thy law. 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. 20: Do not so, but be counselled. 15: And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that thou wouldest never forsake his seed. 10: For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out. 14: If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them. it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness. 39: And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him; 20: For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them. 11: That the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, till thou disposest it to thy mercy. 50: And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.

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