2 Esdras 12:39-41

Common English Bible

³⁹ But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.” ⁴⁰ Then he left me.

When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn’t returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me, ⁴¹ “How have we sinned against you? What wrong did we do to you that you abandon us and sit in this place?