2 Esdras 5:32

2 Esdras 5:32 Context

²⁹And they which did gainsay thy promises, and believed not thy covenants, have trodden them down. ³⁰If thou didst so much hate thy people, yet shouldest thou punish them with thine own hands. ³¹Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night afore was sent unto me, ³²And said unto me, Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more. ³³And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he unto me, Thou art sore troubled in mind for Israel's sake: lovest thou that people better than he that made them? ³⁴And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins pain me every hour, while I labour to comprehend the way of the most High, and to seek out part of his judgment. ³⁵And he said unto me, Thou canst not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord? whereunto was I born then? or why was not my mother's womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?

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