2 Esdras 4:36-38

Common English Bible

³⁶ Then Jeremiel the angel answered them, ‘When the number of those like you^[a] is complete, for God has weighed the world in a balance ³⁷ and measured the times by measure and numbered the times by number, and he won’t move or arouse himself until the prescribed measure is fulfilled.’”

³⁸ I answered: “Supreme Lord, we all are also full of impiety.