2 Esdras 12:44 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been consumed in the burning of Sion! More versionsCommon English Bible If you abandon us now, it would have been better for us to have been burned up along with Zion! Good News Translation (US Version) If you abandon us, it would have been better if we had died like the others in the fire that destroyed Jerusalem. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion! Good News Bible (Anglicised) If you abandon us, it would have been better if we had died like the others in the fire that destroyed Jerusalem. World English Bible British Edition If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion! New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion. |