Translation commentary on 2 Esdras 16:24

No one shall be left to cultivate the earth or to sow it: Compare 2 Esd 6.22. Good News Bible provides a helpful model for this verse, and so does Contemporary English Version, which says:

• No one will be alive to work the land and plant seeds.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Esdras. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2019. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.