2 Esdras 12:48-50

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁸ As for me, I have neither forsaken you nor withdrawn from you; but I have come to this place to pray on account of the desolation of Zion, and to seek mercy on account of the humiliation of our^[a] sanctuary. ⁴⁹ Now go to your homes, every one of you, and after these days I will come to you.’ ⁵⁰ So the people went into the city, as I told them to do.