2 Esdras 2:1

1 "`Thus saith the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them My commandments by My servants the prophets, whom they would not hear, but despised My counsels.

2 Esdras 2:1 In-Context

1 "`Thus saith the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them My commandments by My servants the prophets, whom they would not hear, but despised My counsels.

2 The mother who bore them saith unto them, "Go your way, ye children, for I am a widow and forsaken.

3 I brought you up with gladness, but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you; for ye have sinned before the Lord your God and done that thing that is evil before Him.

4 But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord."

5 As for Me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children who would not keep My covenant,