2 Esdras 2:1-12

1. 1 Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by menservants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but despised my counsels.

2. 2 The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye children; for I am a widow and forsaken.

3. 3 I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.

4. 4 But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.

5. 5 As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,

6. 6 That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.

7. 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.

8. 8 Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha;

9. 9 Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.

10. 10 Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel.

11. 11 Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.

12. 12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary.

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