2 Esdras 12:39-41

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁹ But as for you, wait here for seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.’ Then he left me.

The People Come to Ezra

⁴⁰ When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying, ⁴¹ ‘How have we offended you, and what harm have we done you, that you have forsaken us and sit in this place?