2 Esdras 5:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Arise then, and take some food so that you may not abandon us like a shepherd who leaves his flock in the power of cruel wolves.”

¹⁹ I said to him, “Leave me and don’t come near me again for seven days. After that, you will come to me.” He heard how I spoke and withdrew from me.

Second dialogue

²⁰ I didn’t eat food for seven days, wailing and weeping, as the angel Uriel had commanded me.