2 Esdras 5:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶ and from all the birds that have been created you have named for yourself one dove, and from all the flocks that have been made you have provided for yourself one sheep, ²⁷ and from all the multitude of peoples you have taken for yourself one people; and to this people, whom you have loved, you have given the law that is approved by all. ²⁸ And now, O Lord, why have you handed the one over to the many, and dishonoured^[a] the one root beyond the others, and scattered your only one among the many?