2 Esdras 6:34-36

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³⁴ Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times; then you will not act hastily in the last times.’ ”^(A)

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.^{(B) 36} Then on the eighth night my heart was troubled within me again, and I began to speak in the presence of the Most High.^(C)