1 Esdras 6:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² They told us, “We are the servants of the Lord who created the heaven and the earth. ¹³ The house was built many years before by a great and mighty king of Israel, and it was finished. ¹⁴ But when our ancestors angrily sinned against the Lord of Israel who is in heaven, God gave them over into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans;