2 Esdras 8:6

6 O Lord above us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us a seed for our heart and cultivation of our understanding so that fruit may be produced, by which every mortal who bears the likeness of a human being may be able to live.

2 Esdras 8:6 In-Context

4 I answered and said, "Then drink your fill of understanding, O my soul, and drink wisdom, O my heart.

5 For not of your own will did you come into the world, and against your will you depart, for you have been given only a short time to live.

6 O Lord above us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us a seed for our heart and cultivation of our understanding so that fruit may be produced, by which every mortal who bears the likeness of a human being may be able to live.

7 For you alone exist, and we are a work of your hands, as you have declared.

8 And because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb, and furnish it with members, what you have created is preserved amid fire and water, and for nine months the womb endures your creature that has been created in it.

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr: Lat [place]