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2 Esdras 1:29-38 World English Bible (WEB)

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.

35. Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet believe me; they to whom I have showed no signs shall do that which I have commanded.

36. They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their former estate to remembrance.

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

38. And now, O father, behold with glory; and see the people that come from the east: