2 Esdras 10:34-36

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³⁴ I said, “Speak, my lord; only do not forsake me, so that I may not die before my time.^{[a] 35} For I have seen what I did not know, and I hear^[b] what I do not understand ³⁶ —or is my mind deceived and my soul dreaming?^(A)