2 Esdras 1:28

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.

2 Esdras 1:28 In-Context

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.

29 I begged you to be my people so that I could be your God, to be my children so that I could be your father.

30 I gathered you together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But now what can I do with you? I will banish you from my sight;