2 Esdras 6:55-57

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Why Do God’s People Suffer?

⁵⁵ ‘All this I have spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that it was for us that you created this world.^{[a] 56} As for the other nations that have descended from Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and that they are like spittle, and you have compared their abundance to a drop from a bucket. ⁵⁷ And now, O Lord, these nations, which are reputed to be as nothing, domineer over us and devour us.