2 Esdras 12:42-44

Common English Bible

⁴² You are the only one of all the prophets left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vineyard, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from a storm. ⁴³ Or are the disasters that have befallen us not enough for us? ⁴⁴ If you abandon us now, it would have been better for us to have been burned up along with Zion!