2 Esdras 2:1-7

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.

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