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EZRA REVIY`IY – 4 Ezra
you raise up a servant, called David: 24 Whom you many springs are above the firmament, or which
commanded to build a city unto your name, and to are the outgoings of paradise: 8 Perchance you
offer incense and oblations unto you therein. would say unto me, I never went down into the
25 When this was done many years, then they that deep, nor as yet into She’ol, neither did I ever
inhabited the city forsook you, 26 And in all things climb up into heaven. 9 Nevertheless now have I
did even as Adam and all his generations had asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the
done: for they also had a wicked heart: 27 And so day wherethrough you have passed, and of things
you gave your city over into the hands of your from which you cannot be separated, and yet can
enemies. 28 Are their deeds then any better that you give me no answer of them. 10 He said
inhabit Babel, that they should therefore have the moreover unto me, Your own things, and such as
dominion over Tsiyon? 29 For when I came are grown up with you, can you not know; 11 How
thither, and had seen impieties without number, should your vessel then be able to comprehend
then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth the Way of EL ELYON, and, the world being now
year, so that my heart failed me. 30 For I have seen outwardly corrupted to understand the
how you suffer them sinning, and have spared corruption that is evident in my sight? 12 Then
wicked doers: and have destroyed your people, said I unto him, It were better that we were not at
and have preserved your enemies, and have not all, than that we should live still in wickedness,
signified it. 31 I do not remember how this way and to suffer, and not to know wherefore. 13 He
may be left: Are they then of Babel better than they answered me, and said, I went into a forest into a
of Tsiyon? 32 Or is there any other people that plain, and the trees took counsel, 14 And said,
knows you beside Yashar’el? or what generation Come, let us go and make war against the sea that
has so believed your covenants as Ya`aqov? it may depart away before us, and that we may
33 And yet their reward appears not, and their make us more woods. 15 The floods of the sea also
labour has no fruit: for I have gone here and there in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us
through the heathen, and I see that they flow in go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that
wealth, and think not upon your commandments. there also we may make us another country.
34 Weigh therefore our wickedness now in the 16 The thought of the wood was in vain, for the
balance, and their's also that dwell the world; and fire came and consumed it. 17 The thought of the
so shall your name nowhere be found but in floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the
Yashar’el. 35 Or when was it that they which dwell sand stood up and stopped them. 18 If you were
upon the earth have not sinned in your sight? or judge now betwixt these two, whom would you
what people have so kept your commandments? begin to justify? or whom would you condemn?
36 You shall find that Yashar’el by name has kept 19 I answered and said, Truly it is a foolish
4 ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also
your precepts; but not the heathen. thought that they both have devised, for the
AND the angel that was sent unto me,
has his place to bear his floods. 20 Then answered
whose name was Uriy’el, gave me an
answer, 2 And said, Your heart has gone
too far in this world, and think you to comprehend he me, and said, You have given a right judgment,
but why judge you not yourself also? 21 For like
the Way of EL ELYON? 3 Then said I, Yea, my lord. as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea
And he answered me, and said, I am sent to show to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the
you three ways, and to set forth three similitudes earth may understand nothing but that which is
before you: 4 Whereof if you can declare me one, I upon the earth: and he that dwells above the
will show you also the way that you desire to see, heavens may only understand the things that are
and I shall show you from whence the wicked above the height of the heavens. 22 Then
heart comes. 5 And I said, Tell on, my lord. Then answered I and said, I beseech you, O YAHUAH, let
said he unto me, Go your way, weigh me the me have understanding: 23 For it was not my
weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the mind to be curious of the high things, but of such
wind, or call me again the day that is past. 6 Then as pass by us daily, namely, wherefore Yashar’el is
answered I and said, What man is able to do that, given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for
that you should ask such things of me? 7 And he what cause the people whom you have loved is
said unto me, If I should ask you how great given over unto wicked nations, and why the
dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many Torah of our forefathers is brought to nought, and
springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how the written covenants come to no effect, 24 And
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