2 Esdras 7:10

10 And I said, "It is so, Lord." Then said He unto me, "Even so also is Israel's portion.

2 Esdras 7:10 In-Context

8 and only one path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inherit-ance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?"

10 And I said, "It is so, Lord." Then said He unto me, "Even so also is Israel's portion.

11 Because for their sakes I made the world; and when Adam transgressed My statutes, then was decreed what now is done.

12 Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail; they are but few and evil, full of perils and very painful.