# 2 Esdras 2:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras/2/3
- Book: [2 Esdras](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras)
- Chapter: [2 Esdras 2](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras/2)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-esdras#background-and-history
- JSON: https://apologetics.wiki/api/apocrypha/2-esdras/2/3
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I brought you up with gladness; but with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for ye have sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is evil before him.