2 Esdras 4:35-37

Common English Bible

³⁵ Didn’t the souls of the just in their resting places ask about these things, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here,^[a] and when will the harvest of our reward come?’ ³⁶ Then Jeremiel the angel answered them, ‘When the number of those like you^[b] is complete, for God has weighed the world in a balance ³⁷ and measured the times by measure and numbered the times by number, and he won’t move or arouse himself until the prescribed measure is fulfilled.’”