2 Esdras 7:52-54

Revised Standard Version

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.