2 Esdras 4:32-34

Revised Standard Version

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] and when will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?” ³⁴ He answered me and said, “You do not hasten faster than the Most High, for your haste is for yourself,^[b] but the Highest hastens on behalf of many.