2 Esdras 5:30-32

Common English Bible

³⁰ If you really hate your people, they should be punished with your own hands.

³¹ When I had said these words, the angel who had come to me on the previous night was sent to me. ³² He said to me: “Listen to me, and I will instruct you; pay attention to me, and I will tell you more.”