19 Then I answered and said, “Let me speak in your presence, O Lord. (WEB) 20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people who now live, but who will warn those who will be born afterward? For the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell in it are without light. (WEB) 21 For your law has been burned, therefore no one knows the things that are done by you, or the works that will be done. (WEB)
2 Esdras 14:19–21
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