Note 19 — The First Book.
Reading edition
Death is come up into our windows, and entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah IX. 21.
The Trees shall give fruit and who shall gather them? The Grapes shall ripen and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men.
2. Esdras. XVI. 25.
For strong is his right hand that bendeth the Bow, his arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
2. Esdras. XVI. 13.