2 Esdras 4:35-37

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁵ Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, “How long are we to remain here?^[a] And when will the harvest of our reward come?” ³⁶ And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, “When the number of those like yourselves is completed;^[b] for he has weighed the age in the balance, ³⁷ and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number; and he will not move or arouse them until that measure is fulfilled.”’