If you will forsake us, how much better had it been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion!
KJV
2 Esdras 12:44
If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?
Parallel Translations
If thou then forsake vs, how muche better had it bene for vs, that we had bene burnt also as Sion was burnt?