2 Esdras 9:43-45

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁴³ And she said to me, “Your servant was barren and had no child, though I lived with my husband for thirty years.^{(A) 44} Every hour and every day during those thirty years I prayed to the Most High, night and day.^{(B) 45} And after thirty years God heard your servant and looked upon my low estate and considered my distress and gave me a son. I rejoiced greatly over him, I and my husband and all my neighbors,^[a] and we gave great glory to the Mighty One.^(C)