2 Esdras 8:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ and about your inheritance because of which I lament, and about Israel, on whose account I am sad, and about the seed of Jacob because of which I am disturbed? ¹⁷ Therefore, I will pray before you for myself and for them, because I see the defects of we who live on earth, ¹⁸ but I have heard of the swiftness of the judgment that is to come.