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2 Esdras 15:51-54 World English Bible (WEB)

51. You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and your lovers you shall not be able to receive.

52. Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against you, says the Lord,

53. if you had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of your hands, and saying over their dead, when you were drunken,

54. Set forth the beauty of your countenance?