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2 Esdras 8:45-47 World English Bible (WEB)

45. Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.

46. Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for them that now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.

47. For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.

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