2 Esdras 1:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Ezra’s Prophetic Call

⁴ The word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁵ ‘Go, declare to my people their evil deeds, and to their children the iniquities that they have committed against me, so that they may tell^[a] their children’s children ⁶ that the sins of their parents have increased in them, for they have forgotten me and have offered sacrifices to strange gods.