2 Esdras 5:36-38

Revised Standard Version

³⁶ He said to me, “Count up for me those who have not yet come, and gather for me the scattered raindrops, and make the withered flowers bloom again for me; ³⁷ open for me the closed chambers, and bring forth for me the winds shut up in them, or show me the picture of a voice; and then I will explain to you the travail that you ask to understand.”^[a]

³⁸ And I said, “O sovereign Lord, who is able to know these things except he whose dwelling is not with men?