2 Esdras 4:34-36

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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.^{(A) 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?’^{(B) 36} And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, ‘When the number of those like yourselves^[c] is completed, for he has weighed the age in the balance,^(C)