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2 Esdras 1:19-34 World English Bible (WEB)

19. I had pity upon your mournings, and gave you manna for food; you⌃ did eat angels’ bread.

20. Wnen you⌃ were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees.

21. I divided among you fruitful lands; I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says the Lord.

22. Thus says the Lord Almighty, When you⌃ were in the wilderness, at the bitter river, being thirsty, and blaspheming my name,

23. I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet.

24. What shall I do to you, O Jacob? you, Judah, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and to them will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes.

25. Seeing you⌃ have forsaken me, I also will forsake you; when you⌃ ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you.

26. Whenever you⌃ shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you⌃ have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.

27. You⌃ have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, says the Lord.

28. Thus says the Lord Almighty, Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

29. that you⌃ would be my people, and I should be your God; that you⌃ would be my children, and I should be your father?

30. I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.

31. When you⌃ offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh, have I rejected.

32. I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you⌃ have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, says the Lord.

33. Thus says the Lord Almighty, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind does stubble.

34. And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have neglected my commandment to you, and done that which is evil before me.

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