2 Esdras 8:16-18

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¹⁶ and about your inheritance, for whom I lament, and about Israel, for whom I am sad, and about the seed of Jacob, for whom I am troubled. ¹⁷ Therefore I will pray before you for myself and for them, for I see the failings of us who inhabit the earth,^{(A) 18} and now also^[a] I have heard of the swiftness of the judgment that is to come.^(B)