2 Esdras 9:44-46

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ Hour after hour and day after day during these thirty years I pleaded with the Most High by night and day. ⁴⁵ After thirty years God heard your servant and saw how dejected I was. He attended to my distress and gave me a son. I rejoiced greatly over him, as did my husband and all my fellow citizens, and we greatly honored the mighty one. ⁴⁶ I nourished my son with much labor,