2 Esdras 5:36-38

Common English Bible

³⁶ He said to me: “Count for me those who haven’t yet been born, gather for me the scattered raindrops, make the withered flowers bloom again for me, ³⁷ open for me the closed warehouses and bring forth for me the winds shut up in them, or show me what a voice looks like. Then I will show you what you ask to see.”

³⁸ I said: “Supreme Lord, who can know these things except one who doesn’t live among human beings?