2 Esdras 10:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³² I said, ‘It was because you abandoned me. I did as you directed, and went out into the field, and lo, what I have seen, and can still see, I am unable to explain.’

³³ He said to me, ‘Stand up like a man, and I will instruct you.’

³⁴ I said, ‘Speak, my lord; only do not forsake me, so that I may not die before my time.^[a]