Understand therefore that those who are left are more blessed than those who have died: See verse 20. Good News Bible provides a good model for this verse, and so does Contemporary English Version, which says:

• You can be certain that the people who survive will be much better off than those who are dead.

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.