2 Esdras 12:4-6

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⁴ “You have brought this upon me because you search out the ways of the Most High.^{(A) 5} I am still weary in mind and very weak in my spirit, and not even a little strength is left in me because of the great fear with which I have been terrified tonight.^{(B) 6} Therefore I will now entreat the Most High that he may strengthen me to the end.”