2 Esdras 1:30

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.

2 Esdras 1:30 In-Context

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.
31 When you offer oblations to me, I will turn my face from you; for I have rejected your feast days, and new moons, and circumcisions of the flesh.
32 I sent to you my servants the prophets, but you have taken and slain them and torn their bodies in pieces; their blood I will require of you, says the Lord.
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