2 Esdras 2:15-17

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Exhortation to Good Works

¹⁵ “Mother, embrace your sons; bring them up with gladness, as does the dove; establish their feet, because I have chosen you, says the Lord. ¹⁶ And I will raise up the dead from their places, and will bring them out from their tombs, because I recognize my name in them. ¹⁷ Do not fear, mother of the sons, for I have chosen you, says the Lord.