2 Esdras 7:52-54

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵² ‘If you have just a few precious stones, will you add to them lead and clay?’^{[a] 53} I said, ‘Lord, how could that be?’ ⁵⁴ And he said to me, ‘Not only that, but ask the earth and she will tell you; defer to her, and she will declare it to you.