44 If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion! (WEB) 45 For we are not better than those who died there.” Then they wept with a loud voice. I answered them, (WEB) 46 “Take courage, O Israel! Don’t be sorrowful, you house of Jacob; (WEB)
2 Esdras 12:44–46
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