2 Esdras 6:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ Don’t be hasty to think empty thoughts about the former times, lest you be hasty about the last times.”

Third dialogue

³⁵ After all this I wept again and abstained from food for another seven days, to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me. ³⁶ Then on the eighth night my heart was disturbed within me again, and I began to speak before the Most High.