2 Esdras 8:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁷ Do not take note of the endeavours of those who act wickedly, but of the endeavours of those who have kept your covenants amid afflictions. ²⁸ Do not think of those who have lived wickedly in your sight, but remember those who have willingly acknowledged that you are to be feared. ²⁹ Do not will the destruction of those who have the ways of cattle, but regard those who have gloriously taught your law.^[a]