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2 Esdras 2:1-3
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 2:1-3
Revised Standard Version
God’s Judgment on Israel
2 “Thus says the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them commandments through my servants the prophets; but they would not listen to them, and made my counsels void. 2 The mother who bore them says to them, ‘Go, my children, because I am a widow and forsaken. 3 I brought you up with gladness; but with mourning and sorrow I have lost you, because you have sinned before the Lord God and have done what is evil in my sight.
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