2 Esdras 5:27-29

Common English Bible

²⁷ from all the peoples that have multiplied you acquired for yourself one people, and to this people that you desired you gave the Law celebrated by all. ²⁸ Now, Lord, why did you give the one to the many? Why dishonor^[a] the one root above all the rest, and scatter your only one among the many? ²⁹ Those who have denied your promises have trampled those who believed in your covenants!