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God’s Judgement on Israel

‘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. The mother who bore them[a] says to them, “Go, my children, because I am a widow and forsaken. 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.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Esdras 2:2 Other ancient authorities read They begot for themselves a mother who
  2. 2 Esdras 2:3 Other ancient authorities read in his sight

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