2 Esdras 14:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.

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Truth will depart and falsehood will come near. Even now the eagle, which you saw in your vision, hastens to come.”

As the world grows older and weaker, the evils that will come upon its people will multiply.

For look how much the world will be weaker through age, so much that more evils will increase on those who dwell in it.

As the world grows older and weaker, the evils that will come upon its people will multiply.

For look how much the world will be weaker through age, so much that more evils will increase on those who dwell in it.

For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be increased upon its inhabitants.