2 Esdras 5:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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 out 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 I said, ‘O sovereign Lord, who is able to know these things except him whose dwelling is not with mortals?