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2 Esdras 9:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 9:18-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 For there was a time in this age when I was preparing for those who now exist, before the world was made for them to live in, and no one opposed me then, for no one existed, 19 but now those who have been created in this world, which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture,[a] have become corrupt in their ways.(A) 20 So I considered my world and saw that it was lost. I saw that my earth was in peril because of the devices of those who[b] had come into it.(B)
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