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2 Esdras 1:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 1:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 You have not exulted in my name at the destruction of your enemies, but to this day you still complain.[a] 17 Where are the benefits that I bestowed on you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry out to me, 18 saying, ‘Why have you led us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.’(A)
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- 1.16 Other ancient authorities read I sank your pursuer with his army in the sea, but still the people complain about their own destruction.
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