2 Esdras 3:2-4

Common English Bible

² because I saw how Zion lay in ruins and how those who lived in Babylon enjoyed abundance. ³ I was deeply disturbed, and I began to speak reverently to the Most High: ⁴ “Supreme Lord, didn’t you speak in the beginning, when you fashioned the earth, and did this alone? Didn’t you command the earth,^[a]