2 Esdras 1:27

27 Ye have not, as it were, forsaken Me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.

2 Esdras 1:27 In-Context

25 Seeing ye have forsaken Me, I will forsake you also; when ye desire Me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you.

26 Whensoever ye shall call upon Me, I will not hear you; for ye have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.

27 Ye have not, as it were, forsaken Me, but your own selves, saith the Lord.

28 "`Thus saith the Almighty Lord: Have I not prayed you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters and a nurse her young babes,

29 that ye would be My people and I should be your God, that ye would be My children and I should be your Father?