2 Esdras 4:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³² When heads of grain without number are sown, how great a threshing-floor they will fill!’

When Will the New Age Come?

³³ Then I answered and said, ‘How long?^[a] When will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?’ 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,^[b] but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many.