2 Esdras 5:19-21

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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.^{(A) 20} So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, as the angel Uriel had commanded me.^(B)

Ezra’s Second Prayer of Complaint

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