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2 Esdras 13:18

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18 because they understand what is reserved for the last days, but cannot attain it.
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16 For as I consider it in my mind, alas for those who will be left in those days! And still more, alas for those who are not left!
17 For those who are not left will be sad,
18 because they understand what is reserved for the last days, but cannot attain it.
19 But alas for those also who are left, and for that very reason! For they shall see great dangers and much distress, as these dreams show.
20 Yet it is better to come into these things, though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what shall happen in the last days." He answered me and said,
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.