2 Esdras 1:27

27 It is not as though you had forsaken me; you have forsaken yourselves, says the Lord.

2 Esdras 1:27 In-Context

25 Because you have forsaken me, I also will forsake you. When you beg mercy of me, I will show you no mercy.

26 When you call upon me, I will not listen to you; for you have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit murder.

27 It is not as though you had forsaken me; you have forsaken yourselves, says the Lord.

28 "Thus says the Lord Almighty: Have I not entreated you as a father entreats his sons or a mother her daughters or a nurse her children,

29 that you should be my people and I should be your God, and that you should be my sons and I should be your father?