32 When the grains which are without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!” (WEB) 33 Then I answered and said, “How long? When will these things come to pass? Why are our years few and evil?” (WEB) 34 He answered me, and said, “Don’t hurry faster than the Most High; for your haste is for your own self, but he who is above hurries on behalf of many. (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:32–34
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