en_cepher - 4Ez 9 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ HE answered me then, and said, Measure you the time diligently in itself: and when you see part of the signs past, which I have told you before,

² Then shall you understand, that it is the very same time, wherein El Elyon will begin to visit the world which he made.

³ Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:

⁴ Then shall you well understand, that El Elyon spoke of those things from the days that were before you, even from the beginning.

⁵ For like as all that is made in the world has a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:

⁶ Even so the times also of El Elyon have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.

⁷ And everyone that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,

⁸ Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my yeshu`ah in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.

⁹ Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.

¹⁰ For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;

¹¹ And they that have loathed my Torah, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet a place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;

¹² The same must know it after death by pain.

¹³ And therefore be not curious how the wicked shall be punished, and when: but inquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.

¹⁴ Then answered I and said,

¹⁵ I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved:

¹⁶ Like as a wave is greater than a drop.

¹⁷ And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colors also; such as the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.

¹⁸ And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spoke against me.

¹⁹ For then everyone obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a Torah which is unsearchable rid themselves.

²⁰ So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.

²¹ And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.

²² Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labor have I made it perfect.

²³ Nevertheless, if you will cease yet seven days more, (but you shall not fast in them,

²⁴ But go into a field of flowers, where no house is built, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only;)

²⁵ And pray unto El Elyon continually, then will I come and talk with you.

²⁶ So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.

²⁷ After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:

²⁸ And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before El Elyon, and said,

²⁹ O Yahuah, you that show yourself unto us, you were showed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treads, in a barren place, when they came out of Mitsrayim.

³⁰ And you spoke saying, Hear me, O Yashar'el; and mark my words, you seed of Ya`aqov.

³¹ For, behold, I sow my Torah in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honored in it forever.

³² But our fathers, which received the Torah, kept it not, and observed not your ordinances: and though the fruit of your Torah did not perish, neither could it, for it was yours;

³³ Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.

³⁴ And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into,

³⁵ That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, perishes, and remains not with us: but with us it has not happened so.

³⁶ For we that have received the Torah perish by sin, and our heart also which received it

³⁷ Notwithstanding the Torah perishes not, but remains in his force.

³⁸ And when I spoke these things in my heart, I looked back with my eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

³⁹ Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,

⁴⁰ And said unto her, Wherefore do you weep? why are you so grieved in your mind?

⁴¹ And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

⁴² And I said unto her, What ails you? tell me.

⁴³ She said unto me, I your servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had a man thirty years,

⁴⁴ And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to El Elyon.

⁴⁵ After thirty years Elohiym heard me your handmaid, looked upon my misery, considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I was very glad of him, so was my man also, and all my neighbors: and we gave great honor unto El Shaddai.

⁴⁶ And I nourished him with great travail.

⁴⁷ So when he grew up, and came to the time that he should have a woman, I made a feast.