2 Esdras 9:36

36 For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our heart which received it;

2 Esdras 9:36 In-Context

34 And behold, it is the rule that, when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any dish food or drink, and when it happens that what was sown or what was launched or what was put in is destroyed,

35 they are destroyed, but the things that held them remain; yet with us it has not been so.

36 For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our heart which received it;

37 the law, however, does not perish but remains in its glory."

38 When I said these things in my heart, I lifted up my eyes and saw a woman on my right, and behold, she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart, and her clothes were rent, and there were ashes on her head.