2 Esdras 4:44-49 World English Bible (WEB)

44. Then answered I and said, if I have found favor in your sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,

45. show me this also, whether there be more to come than is past, or whether the more part is gone over us.

46. For what is gone I know, but what is for to come I know not.

47. And he said to me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude to you.

48. so I stood, and saw, and, behold, a hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened, that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.

49. After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.

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