2 Esdras 4:37-39

Common English Bible

³⁷ and measured the times by measure and numbered the times by number, and he won’t move or arouse himself until the prescribed measure is fulfilled.’”

³⁸ I answered: “Supreme Lord, we all are also full of impiety. ³⁹ Is it perhaps because of us, and because of the sins of those who live on earth, that the harvest of the just is delayed?”