18 but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:18
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2 Esdras 8:60–62
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2 Esdras 16:36–38
36 Behold, the Lord’s word: receive it. Don’t doubt the things about which the Lord speaks. (WEB) 37 Behold, the calamities draw near, and are not delayed. (WEB) 38 Just as a woman with child in the ninth month, when the hour of her delivery draws near, within two or three hours gr… (WEB)
Jeremiah 4:11–13
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2 Maccabees 7:34–36
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Ezekiel 7:5–7
5 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster — behold, it is coming! 6 The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! 7 Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day i…
2 Esdras 16:2–4
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Psalms of Solomon 8:2–4
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Job 19:28–29
28 If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’ 29 then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
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