my law, but it is a rebellious people.

2 Esdr 1:9
How long shall I forbear them, into whom I have done so much good?

2 Esdr 1:10
Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes; Pharaoh with his
servants and all his power have I smitten down.

2 Esdr 1:11
All the nations have I destroyed before them, and in the east
I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyrus and
Sidon, and have slain all their enemies.

2 Esdr 1:12
Speak thou therefore unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord,

2 Esdr 1:13
I led you through the sea and in the beginning gave you a large and
safe passage; I gave you Moses for a leader, and Aaron for a priest.

2 Esdr 1:14
I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have
I done among you; yet have ye forgotten me, saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 1:15
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, The quails were as a token to you;
I gave you tents for your safeguard: nevertheless ye murmured there,

2 Esdr 1:16
And triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies,
but ever to this day do ye yet murmur.

2 Esdr 1:17
Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when ye were
hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did ye not cry unto me,

2 Esdr 1:18
Saying, Why hast thou brought us into this wilderness to kill us?
it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians,
than to die in this wilderness.

2 Esdr 1:19
Then had I pity upon your mournings, and gave you manna to eat;
so ye did eat angels' bread.

2 Esdr 1:20
When ye were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters
flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the
leaves of the trees.

2 Esdr 1:21
I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the
Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do
more for you? saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 1:22
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, When ye were in the wilderness,
in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name,

2 Esdr 1:23
I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water,
and made the river sweet.

2 Esdr 1:24
What shall I do unto thee, O Jacob? thou, Juda, wouldest not
obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and unto those will
I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.

2 Esdr 1:25
Seeing ye have forsaken me, I will forsake you also; when ye desire me
to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.

2 Esdr 1:26
Whensoever ye shall call upon me, I will not h