2 Esdras 4:42-44

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⁴² For just as a woman who is in labor makes haste to escape the pangs of birth, so also do these places hasten to give back those things who were committed to them from the beginning. ⁴³ Then the things that you desire to see will be disclosed to you.”

How Much Time Remains?

⁴⁴ I answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, and if it is possible, and if I am worthy,^(A)