2 Esdras 8:59 - Revised Standard Version CI

For just as the things which I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment which are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that men should be destroyed;

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Common English Bible

Just as the things that are predicted will receive you, so also the thirst and torment that are prepared will receive them. The Most High didn’t intend for human beings to be destroyed,

Good News Translation (US Version)

So the joys I have described are waiting for you, while thirst and torment are in store for them. But God Most High did not want anyone to perish.

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

For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed,

Good News Bible (Anglicised)

So the joys I have described are waiting for you, while thirst and torment are in store for them. But God Most High did not want anyone to perish.

World English Bible British Edition

For as the things I have said will welcome you, so thirst and pain which are prepared for them. For the Most High didn’t intend that men should be destroyed,

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For as the things aforesaid shall receive you, so thirst and pain which are prepared shall receive them: for the Most High willed not that men should come to nought:

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