2 Esdras 9:28-30

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²⁸ Then my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High and said,^{(A) 29} “O Lord, you showed yourself among us to our ancestors in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness,^{(B) 30} and you said, ‘Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.