2 Esdras 1:26

26 When you pray to me, I will not hear you. You never hesitate to commit murder; your hands are stained with the blood of those you have killed.

2 Esdras 1:26 In-Context

24 People of Israel, what can I do with you? People of Judah, you refuse to obey me. So I will turn to other nations and make them my people. They will keep my laws.

25 Because you have abandoned me, I will abandon you. You will beg me for mercy, but I will show you none.

26 When you pray to me, I will not hear you. You never hesitate to commit murder; your hands are stained with the blood of those you have killed.

27 It is not me that you have betrayed; you have betrayed yourselves.

28 "The Lord Almighty says: I have pleaded with you as a father pleads with his sons, as a mother pleads with her daughters, or as a nursemaid pleads with her small children.