2 Esdras 8:17
King James VersionSource notes
“Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.”
Context
14If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.
15Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry;
16And for thine inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;
17Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.
18But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come.
19Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said,
20O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;