2 Esdras 5:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Ezra’s Second Prayer of Complaint

²¹ After seven days the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again. ²² Then my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began once more to speak words in the presence of the Most High. ²³ I said, ‘O sovereign Lord, from every forest of the earth and from all its trees you have chosen one vine,