2 Esdras 9:21
20. So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.21. And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.22. Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
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