2 Esdras 4:34-36

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁴ He answered me and said, ‘Do not be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You, indeed, are in a hurry for yourself,^[a] but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many. ³⁵ Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, “How long are we to remain here?^[b] And when will the harvest of our reward come?” ³⁶ And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, “When the number of those like yourselves is completed;^[c] for he has weighed the age in the balance,