2 Esdras 2:3-10

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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,

4. 6 That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.

5. 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.

6. 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;

7. 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.

8. 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.

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