e have sinned before the Lord your God,
and done that thing that is evil before him.

2 Esdr 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.

2 Esdr 2:5
As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the
mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,

2 Esdr 2:6
That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil,
that there may be no offspring of them.

2 Esdr 2:7
Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names
be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.

2 Esdr 2:8
Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in
thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and
Gomorrha;

2 Esdr 2:9
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.

2 Esdr 2:10
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.

2 Esdr 2:11
Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting
tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.

2 Esdr 2:12
They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour;
they shall neither labour, nor be weary.

2 Esdr 2:13
Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may
be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.

2 Esdr 2:14
Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil
in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 2:15
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.

2 Esdr 2:16
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.

2 Esdr 2:17
Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee,
saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 2:18
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,

2 Esdr 2:19
And as many fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven
mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby
I will fill thy children with joy.

2 Esdr 2:20
Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the
poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,

2 Esdr 2:21
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