2 Esdras 4:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁶ And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, “When the number of those like yourselves is completed;^[a] 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.”’

³⁸ Then I answered and said, ‘But, O sovereign Lord, all of us also are full of ungodliness.