2 Esdras 9:30

30 and thou didst say, `Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.

2 Esdras 9:30 In-Context

28 And my mouth was opened, and I began to speak before the Most High, and said,

29 "O Lord, thou didst show thyself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness when they came out from Egypt and when they came into the untrodden and unfruitful wilderness;

30 and thou didst say, `Hear me, O Israel, and give heed to my words, O descendants of Jacob.

31 For behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you and you shall be glorified through it for ever.'

32 But though our fathers received the law, they did not keep it, and did not observe the statutes; yet the fruit of the law did not perish -- for it could not, because it was thine.