ear you: for ye have
defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit
manslaughter.

2 Esdr 1:27
Ye have not as it were forsaken me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 1:28
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Have I not prayed you as a father his
sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babes,

2 Esdr 1:29
That ye would be my people, and I should be your God; that ye
would be my children, and I should be your father?

2 Esdr 1:30
I gathered you together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings: but now, what shall I do unto you? I will cast you
out from my face.

2 Esdr 1:31
When ye offer unto me, I will turn my face from you: for your
solemn feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I
forsaken.

2 Esdr 1:32
I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken
and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will
require of your hands, saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 1:33
Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will
cast you out as the wind doth stubble.

2 Esdr 1:34
And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised
my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.

2 Esdr 1:35
Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not
having heard of me yet shall believe me; to whom I have shewed
no signs, yet they shall do that I have commanded them.

2 Esdr 1:36
They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their sins to
remembrance, and acknowledge them.

2 Esdr 1:37
I take to witness the grace of the people to come, whose little
ones rejoice in gladness: and though they have not seen me with
bodily eyes, yet in spirit they believe the thing that I say.

2 Esdr 1:38
And now, brother, behold what glory; and see the people that
come from the east:

2 Esdr 1:39
Unto whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas,

2 Esdr 1:40
Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggeus, Zachary, and Malachy, which
is called also an angel of the Lord.

2 Esdr 2:1
Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I
gave them my commandments by menservants the prophets; whom they
would not hear, but despised my counsels.

2 Esdr 2:2
The mother that bare them saith unto them, Go your way, ye children;
for I am a widow and forsaken.

2 Esdr 2:3
I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness
have I lost you: for y