2 Esdras 5:19-21

Revised Standard Version

¹⁹ Then I said to him, “Depart from me and do not come near me for seven days, and then you may come to me.”

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

Ezra’s Second Prayer of Complaint

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