2 Esdras 5:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁹ Then I said to him, ‘Go away from me and do not come near me for seven days; then you may come to me.’

He heard what I said and left me. ²⁰ So I fasted for seven days, mourning and weeping, as the angel Uriel had commanded me.

Ezra’s Second Prayer of Complaint

²¹ After seven days the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again.