st
continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for
Sion.

2 Esdr 10:40
This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately
sawest:

2 Esdr 10:41
Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort
her:

2 Esdr 10:42
But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but
there appeared unto thee a city builded.

2 Esdr 10:43
And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is
the solution:

2 Esdr 10:44
This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said
unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,

2 Esdr 10:45
Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty
years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no
offering made in her.

2 Esdr 10:46
But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered
offerings: and then bare the barren a son.

2 Esdr 10:47
And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour:
that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

2 Esdr 10:48
But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his
marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the
destruction that came to Jerusalem.

2 Esdr 10:49
And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, and because she
mourned for her son, thou begannest to comfort her: and of these
things which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.

2 Esdr 10:50
For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved
unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath
he shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness
of her beauty:

2 Esdr 10:51
And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house
was builded:

2 Esdr 10:52
For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.

2 Esdr 10:53
Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no
foundation of any building was.

2 Esdr 10:54
For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his
city, there can no man's building be able to stand.

2 Esdr 10:55
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:

2 Esdr 10:56
And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may
comprehend.

2 Esdr 10:57
For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with
the Highest; and so are but few.

2 Esdr 10:58
But to morrow at night thou shalt remain here;

2 Esdr 10:59
And so shall the Highest shew thee visions of the high
things,