2 Esdras 14:19-21

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Ezra’s Concern to Restore the Scriptures

¹⁹ Then I answered and said, “Let me speak^[a] in your presence, Lord. ²⁰ For I will go, as you have commanded me, and I will reprove the people who are now living, but who will warn those who will be born hereafter? For the world lies in darkness, and its inhabitants are without light.^{(A) 21} For your law has been burned, so no one knows the things that have been done or will be done by you.^(B)