The Assumption of Moses 3

1. . . in those times shall come on them a king from the East, and his horsemen shall cover their land,

2And shall burn their "colony" with fire with the holy temple of the Lord, and he shall take away all the holy vessels;

3And he shall drive out all the people, and lead them into his own land, even the two tribes shall he lead with him.

4Then the two tribes shall call on the ten tribes and shall be led like a lioness on the dusty plains hungering and thirsting with their little children,

5And they shall cry: "Righteous and holy is the Lord, inasmuch as ye have sinned, and we likewise are led into captivity with you."

6Then the ten tribes shall wail when they hear the reproachful words of the two tribes,

7And shall say: "What have we done unto you, brethren? Hath not this tribulation fallen on the whole house of Israel?"

8And all the tribes shall wail, crying to heaven and saying:

9"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, remember Thy covenant which Thou madest with them, and the oath, which Thou swarest unto them by Thyself, that their seed should never fail from the land, which Thou gavest them."

10Then shall they remember me on that day saying one tribe to another and each man to his neighbour:

11"Lo! is not this that which Moses did once declare unto us in prophecies, who suffered many things in Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the desert forty years?