2 Esdras 1:34
King James VersionSource notes
“And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.”
Context
31When ye offer unto me, I will turn my face from you: for your solemn feastdays, your new moons, and your circumcisions, have I forsaken.
32I sent unto you my servants the prophets, whom ye have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require of your hands, saith the Lord.
33Thus saith the Almighty Lord, Your house is desolate, I will cast you out as the wind doth stubble.
34And your children shall not be fruitful; for they have despised my commandment, and done the thing that is an evil before me.
35Your houses will I give to a people that shall come; which not having heard of me yet shall believe me; to whom I have shewed no signs, yet they shall do that I have commanded them.
36They have seen no prophets, yet they shall call their sins to remembrance, and acknowledge them.
37I take to witness the grace of the people to come, whose little ones rejoice in gladness: and though they have not seen me with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they believe the thing that I say.