2 Esdras 2:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes.^[a] That is what I will do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty.’

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord to Ezra: ‘Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I was going to give to Israel. ¹¹ Moreover, I will take back to myself their glory, and will give to these others the everlasting habitations, which I had prepared for Israel.^[b]