2 Esdras 1:31-33

Common English Bible

³¹ When you bring me offerings, I will turn my eyes away from you. I didn’t command you to observe^[a] festival days, new moons, sabbaths, and circumcisions. ³² I sent my servants the prophets to you. You took them, mangled them, and slaughtered those who had been sent.^[b] But I will make you pay for their deaths, says the Lord.

³³ The almighty Lord says this: Your house is left empty. I will scatter you as the wind scatters straw.