2 Esdras 4:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ He answered: “Don’t be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You hurry only for yourself, but the Most High on behalf of many. ³⁵ Didn’t the souls of the just in their resting places ask about these things, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here,^[a] and when will the harvest of our reward come?’ ³⁶ Then Jeremiel the angel answered them, ‘When the number of those like you^[b] is complete, for God has weighed the world in a balance