2 Esdras 6:33-35

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³³ Therefore he sent me to show you all these things and to say to you: ‘Believe and do not be afraid!^{(A) 34} Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times; then you will not act hastily in the last times.’ ”^(B)

The Third Vision

³⁵ Now after this I wept again and fasted seven days in the same way as before, in order to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me.^(C)