2 Esdras 6:58-59

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵⁸ But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, only-begotten, zealous for you,^[a] and most dear, have been given into their hands. ⁵⁹ If the world has indeed been created for us, why do we not possess our world as an inheritance? How long will this be so?’