2 Esdras 2:4
3. I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.4. But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.5. As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
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