2 Esdras 2:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.” ⁵ Now I call upon you, father, as a witness in addition to the mother of the children, because they would not keep my covenant, ⁶ so that you may bring confusion on them and bring their mother to ruin, so that they may have no offspring.