2 Esdras 16:47 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for strangers shall gather their fruits and plunder their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and famine they will produce their children.

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Common English Bible

Foreigners will gather their fruits, plunder their wealth, knock down their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and hunger they will produce their offspring.

Good News Translation (US Version)

Anyone who makes money will do so only to see it violently taken away. The more possessions people gather, the more they spend on their cities and houses, the more attention they give to their personal appearance,

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

Those who conduct business, do so only to be plundered. The more they adorn their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,

Good News Bible (Anglicised)

Anyone who makes money will do so only to see it violently taken away. The more possessions people gather, the more they spend on their cities and houses, the more attention they give to their personal appearance,

World English Bible British Edition

Those who conduct business, do so only to be plundered. The more they adorn their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And they that traffick traffick to become a spoil: the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons,

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