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2 Esdras 4:34-36
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Esdras 4:34-36
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
34 He answered me and said, “Do not be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You, indeed, are in a hurry for yourself,[a] but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many.(A) 35 Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here?[b] And when will the harvest of our reward come?’(B) 36 And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, ‘When the number of those like yourselves[c] is completed, for he has weighed the age in the balance,(C)
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