2 Esdras 8:37-39

Revised Standard Version

Response to Ezra’s Prayer

³⁷ He answered me and said, “Some things you have spoken rightly, and it will come to pass according to your words. ³⁸ For indeed I will not concern myself about the fashioning of those who have sinned, or about their death, their judgment, or their destruction; ³⁹ but I will rejoice over the creation of the righteous, over their pilgrimage also, and their salvation, and their receiving their reward.