2 Esdras 9:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ Normally, when the ground receives seed or the sea a ship or some other container food or drink, and when it happens that what was sown or what was sent or what was received is destroyed, ³⁵ those things themselves are destroyed, but the containers remain. But this hasn’t been so in our case. ³⁶ We who received the Law sinned and will perish, along with our hearts that received it;