2 Esdras 14:12-22

12 and there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
13 Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people; comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption.
14 Let go from thee mortal thoughts; cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
15 and set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and hasten thee to flee from these times.
16 For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter.
17 For look how much the world shall be weaker through age; so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
18 For the truth is fled far away, and lying is hard at hand; for now hasteneth the vision to come, which thou hast seen."
19 Then answered I before Thee and said,
20 "Behold, Lord, I will go, as Thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people who are present; but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? Thus the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
21 For Thy law is burned; therefore no man knoweth the things that are done by Thee, or the works that shall begin.
22 But if I have found grace before Thee, send the Holy Spirit into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in Thy law, that men may find Thy path, and that those who will live in the latter days may live."Œ
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