2 Esdras 12:39-41

Revised Standard Version

³⁹ But wait here seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you.” Then he left me.

The People Come to Ezra

⁴⁰ When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying, ⁴¹ “How have we offended you, and what harm have we done you, that you have forsaken us and sit in this place?