25 Nourish your children, good nurse, and establish their feet. (WEB) 26 As for the servants whom I have given you, not one of them will perish, for I will require them from among your number. (WEB) 27 Don’t be anxious, for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others will weep and be sorrowful, but you will rejoice and have abundance. (WEB)
2 Esdras 2:25–27
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