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2 Esdras 2:2-18

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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

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

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

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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

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

  12. Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.

  13. Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.

  14. Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.

  15. And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my name in Israel.

  16. Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.

  17. For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits,