Seeing ye have forsaken me, I will forsake you also; when ye desire me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.
I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out from my face.
When ye offer unto me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I forsaken.
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble. II Esdras 1:10&11&25&30&31&33
Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrah;
Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord. II Esdras 2:8&9
Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearness.
Keep the old and young within thy walls.
Wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I will give thee the first place in my resurrection. II Esdras 2:20-23
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.
And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him and in his generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds, out of number.
For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.
And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart: II Esdras 3:5-7 &21&26
And it happened, that when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children, and were a great people, they began again to be more ungodly than the first.
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. II Esdras 3:12&30
And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly.
And now, O Lord, why hast thou given this one people over unto many? and upon the one root hast thou prepared others, and why hast thou scattered thy only one people among many?
And they which did gainsay thy promises, and believed not thy covenants, have trodden them down.
If thou didst so much hate thy people, yet shouldest thou punish them with thine own hands. II Esdras 5:3&28-30
And it said, Behold, the days come, that I will begin to draw nigh, and to visit them that dwell upon the earth,
And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled;
And when the world, that shall begin to vanish away, shall be finished, then will I shew these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and they shall see all together:
And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.
And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:
And the trumpet shall give a sound, which when every man heareth, they shall be suddenly afraid.
At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours they shall not run. II Edras 6:18-24
Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
Nevertheless they were not obedient unto him; but spake against him, and imagined vain things. II Esdras 7:17&18& 20-22
Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and very painful.
For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit.
O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.
For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death? II Esdras 7:11-13&48&49
And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
There be many created, but few shall be saved.
For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride. II Esdras 8:1&3&50
He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world: II Esdras 9:1-3
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;
The same must know it after death by pain. II Esdras 9:11&12
Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:
In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth. II Esdras 12:13&14&23
Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
Therefore are they come into great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.
Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth.
And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the earth.
And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city against another, one place against another, one people against another, and one realm against another.
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.
And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another. II Esdras 13:18&19&29-33
And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
And I said, Here am I, Lord. And I stood up upon my feet.
Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt: II Esdras 14:1-3
Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.
For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.
Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.