2 Esdras 8:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁶ For in this, O Lord, your righteousness and goodness will be declared, when you are merciful to those who have no store of good works.’

Response to Ezra’s Prayer

³⁷ He answered me and said, ‘Some things you have spoken rightly, and it will turn out according to your words. ³⁸ For indeed I will not concern myself about the fashioning of those who have sinned, or about their death, their judgement, or their destruction;