2 Esdras 9:15-17

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¹⁵ “I said before, and I say now and will say it again: there are more who perish than those who will be saved,^{(A) 16} as a wave is greater than a drop of water.”

¹⁷ He answered me and said, “As is the field, so is the seed, and as are the flowers, so are the colors, and as is the work, so is the product, and as is the farmer, so is the threshing floor.^(B)