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2 Esdras 1:17-33

  1. Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when ye were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did ye not cry unto me,

  2. Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.

  3. Then had I pity upon your mournings, and gave you manna to eat; so ye did eat angels' bread.

  4. When ye were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.

  5. I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.

  6. Thus saith the Almighty Lord, When ye were in the wilderness, in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name,

  7. I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.

  8. What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob? thou, Juda, wouldest not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and unto those will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.

  9. Seeing ye have forsaken me, I will forsake you also; when ye desire me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.

  10. Whensoever ye shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.

  11. Ye have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.

  12. Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

  13. That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye would be my children, and I should be your father?

  14. I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you out from my face.

  15. When ye offer unto me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I forsaken.

  16. I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord.

  17. Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble.