2 Esdras 1:20-30

20 When you were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock so that waters flowed in abundance? Because of the heat I covered you with the leaves of trees.
21 I divided fertile lands among you; I drove out the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and the Philistines before you. What more can I do for you? says the Lord.
22 Thus says the Lord Almighty: When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, thirsty and blaspheming my name,
23 I did not send fire upon you for your blasphemies, but threw a tree into the water and made the stream sweet.
24 "What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You would not obey me, O Judah. I will turn to other nations and will give them my name, that they may keep my statutes.
25 Because you have forsaken me, I also will forsake you. When you beg mercy of me, I will show you no mercy.
26 When you call upon me, I will not listen to you; for you have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit murder.
27 It is not as though you had forsaken me; you have forsaken yourselves, says the Lord.
28 "Thus says the Lord Almighty: Have I not entreated you as a father entreats his sons or a mother her daughters or a nurse her children,
29 that you should be my people and I should be your God, and that you should be my sons and I should be your father?
30 I gathered you as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.
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