1Now, brother Esdras, look at the glory of the people coming from the East.
2I will give them as leaders Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and also Hosea, Amos, Micah, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah.
3And also Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, who is also called the angel of the Lord.
4Thus says the Lord: I brought this people out of bondage and gave them commandments through my servants, the prophets.
5But they would not listen to them and made my counsels vain.
6The mother who bore them says to them: Go, children, for I am a widow and forsaken.
7I raised you with joy, but with mourning and sorrow I lost you.
8Because you sinned before the Lord your God and did what is evil in his sight.
9Now, what can I do for you? I am a widow and forsaken.
10Go, children, and ask mercy from the Lord.
11I call you, O father, as a witness besides the mother of my children.
12Because they would not keep my covenant, confound them and let their mother be plundered.
13That they may have no offspring, that they may be scattered among the nations.
14That their names may be erased from the Earth, because they despised my covenant.