25 The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (WEB) 26 The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (WEB) 27 for one man will desire to see another, or to hear his voice. (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:25–27
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2 Baruch 22:6–8
6 fruit in its season, does he not lose everything? Or he who plants a plant unless it grows till the (2BA) 7 time suitable to it, does he who planted it expect to receive fruit from it? Or a woman who has (2BA) 8 conceived, if she bring forth untimely, does she not assuredly sl… (2BA)
2 Esdras 16:42–44
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2 Esdras 5:11–13
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