42 For of all the prophets, only you are left to us, like a cluster of the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from the tempest. (WEB) 43 Aren’t the evils which have come to us sufficient? (WEB) 44 If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion! (WEB)
2 Esdras 12:42–44
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