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2 Esdras 2:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 2:1-3
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
God’s Judgement on Israel
2 ‘Thus says the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them commandments through my servants the prophets; but they would not listen to them, and made my counsels void. 2 The mother who bore them[a] says to them, “Go, my children, because I am a widow and forsaken. 3 I brought you up with gladness; but with mourning and sorrow I have lost you, because you have sinned before the Lord God and have done what is evil in my sight.[b]
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- 2 Esdras 2:2 Other ancient authorities read They begot for themselves a mother who
- 2 Esdras 2:3 Other ancient authorities read in his sight
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
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