2 Esdras 8:15-17

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¹⁵ And now I will speak out: About all humankind you know best, but I will speak about your people, for whom I am grieved, ¹⁶ and about your inheritance, for whom I lament, and about Israel, for whom I am sad, and about the seed of Jacob, for whom I am troubled. ¹⁷ Therefore I will pray before you for myself and for them, for I see the failings of us who inhabit the earth,^(A)