2 Esdras 8:36-38

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

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.”^(A)

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 judgment, or their destruction,^(B)