2 Esdras 8:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ For you alone exist, and we are a work of your hands, as you have declared. ⁸ And because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb, and furnish it with members, what you have created is preserved amid fire and water, and for nine months the womb^[a] endures your creature that has been created in it. ⁹ But that which keeps and that which is kept shall both be kept by your keeping.^[b] And when the womb gives up again what has been created in it,