Thus says Yah-Who-Ah, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by menservants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but despised my counsels. The mother that bare them says unto them, Go your way, you children; for I am a widow and forsaken. I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you have sinned before Yah-Who-Ah your Elohim, and done that thing that is evil before him. But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of Yah-Who-Ah. As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant, That you bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them. Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant. Woe be unto you, Assur, you that hide the unrighteous in you! O you wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha; Whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, says the Almighty Yah-Who-Ah. Thus says Yah-Who-Ah unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel. Their glory also will I take unto me, and give these the everlasting tabernacles, which I had prepared for them. They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary.
