2 Esdras 14:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³¹ Then land was given to you for a possession in the land of Zion; but you and your ancestors committed iniquity and did not keep the ways that the Most High commanded you. ³² And since he is a righteous judge, in due time he took from you what he had given. ³³ And now you are here, and your people^[a] are farther in the interior.^[b]