2 Esdras 2:15-17

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Exhortation to Good Works

¹⁵ “Mother, embrace your children; bring them up with gladness, as does a dove; strengthen their feet, because I have chosen you, says the Lord.^{(A) 16} And I will raise up the dead from their places and bring them out from their tombs, because I recognize my name in them.^{(B) 17} Do not fear, mother of children, for I have chosen you, says the Lord.