2 Esdras 16:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Gird up yourselves with sackcloth and garments of hair, and bewail your children, and lament; for your destruction is at hand.

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Common English Bible

² Dress yourselves in mourning clothes. Howl over your children and grieve for them, because distress has drawn near to you.

Good News Translation (US Version)

² Put on your clothes of mourning, your sackcloth and goat's hair. Cry and wail for your children because the time for your destruction is near.

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

² Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand.

Good News Bible (Anglicised)

² Put on mourning, your sackcloth and goat's hair. Cry and wail for your children because the time for your destruction is near.

World English Bible British Edition

² Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand.

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

² Bind on sackcloth and cloth of goats' hair, and wail for your children, and lament for them; for your destruction is at hand.

2 Esdras 16:2 Cross References