30 or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are some clusters left by those who diligently search through the vineyard, (WEB) 31 even so in those days, there will be three or four left by those who search their houses with the sword. (WEB) 32 The earth will be left desolate, and its fields will be for briers, and its roads and all her paths will grow thorns, because no sheep will pass along them. (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:30–32
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