2 Esdras 10:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ Without warning she let out a noise, a great voice full of fear, so that the earth itself shook with the sound. ²⁷ I watched, and she no longer appeared to me as a woman, but there was a city built, and a place with great foundations appeared. I was afraid, and I shouted with a great voice, ²⁸ “Where’s the angel Uriel, who came to me from the beginning? He’s the one who’s brought me to the end of my wits! My end has turned into decay and my prayer into a reproach.”