2 Esdras 8:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁷ Therefore I will pray before you for myself and for them, for I see the failings of us who inhabit the earth; ¹⁸ and now also^[a] I have heard of the swiftness of the judgement that is to come. ¹⁹ Therefore hear my voice and understand my words, and I will speak before you.’

Ezra’s Prayer

The beginning of the words of Ezra’s prayer,^[b] before he was taken up. He said: