2 Esdras 3:22-24

Common English Bible

²² The disease became permanent; the Law was in the people’s heart along with the wicked root, and that which was good departed and the wickedness remained. ²³ Times passed and years were completed, and you raised up for yourself a servant named David. ²⁴ You told him to build a city to your name and to bring you offerings in it from what is yours.