2 Esdras 8:14

14 If then you will suddenly and quickly destroy what with so great labor was fashioned by your command, to what purpose was it made?

2 Esdras 8:14 In-Context

12 You have nurtured it in your righteousness, and instructed it in your law, and reproved it in your wisdom.

13 You put it to death as your creation, and make it live as your work.

14 If then you will suddenly and quickly destroy what with so great labor was fashioned by your command, to what purpose was it made?

15 And now I will speak out: About all humankind you know best; but I will speak about your people, for whom I am grieved,

16 and about your inheritance, for whom I lament, and about Israel, for whom I am sad, and about the seed of Jacob, for whom I am troubled.

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr: Lat [will with a light command]