2 Esdras 6:33-35

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.”’

The Third Vision

³⁵ Now after this I wept again and fasted for seven days in the same way as before, in order to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me.