2 Esdras 9:35

35 those things themselves are destroyed, but the containers remain. But this hasn't been so in our case.

2 Esdras 9:35 In-Context

33 Yet those who received it perished, not keeping what was sown in them.

34 Normally, when the ground receives seed or the sea a ship or some other container food or drink, and when it happens that what was sown or what was sent or what was received is destroyed,

35 those things themselves are destroyed, but the containers remain. But this hasn't been so in our case.

36 We who received the Law sinned and will perish, along with our hearts that received it;

37 yet the Law doesn't perish but remains in its glory."