1 Esdras 8:82
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Don’t seek at any time to make a peace treaty with them, so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and pass it on as an inheritance to your children forever.”
‘And now, O Lord, what shall we say, when we have these things? For we have transgressed your commandments, which you gave by your servants the prophets, saying,
do not seek ever to have peace with them, so that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
“And now, O Lord, what shall we say, when we have these things? For we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou didst give by thy servants the prophets, saying,
And now, Lord, what say we, having these things? We have over-passed thy behests (or We have transgressed thy commandments), the which thou give [or the which thou gave] into the hands of thy children (or which thou gavest by the hands of thy servants), (the) prophets, that said, [or saying],
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