2 Esdras 2:7
King James VersionSource notes
“Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.”
Context
4But what shall I now do unto you? I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
5As for me, O father, I call upon thee for a witness over the mother of these children, which would not keep my covenant,
6That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoil, that there may be no offspring of them.
7Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth: for they have despised my covenant.
8Woe be unto thee, Assur, thou that hidest the unrighteous in thee! O thou wicked people, remember what I did unto Sodom and Gomorrha;
9Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the Almighty Lord.
10Thus saith the Lord unto Esdras, Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given unto Israel.