2 Esdras 6:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³² because your voice has surely been heard by the Most High; for the Mighty One has seen your uprightness and has also observed the purity that you have maintained from your youth. ³³ Therefore he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you: “Believe and do not be afraid! ³⁴ Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times; then you will not act hastily in the last times.”’