34
If you, then, will rule over your minds and discipline your hearts, you shall be kept alive, and after death you shall obtain mercy.
35
For after death the judgment will come, when we shall live again; and then the names of the righteous will become manifest, and the deeds of the ungodly will be disclosed.
36
But let no one come to me now, and let no one seek me for forty days."
37
So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we proceeded to the field, and remained there.
38
And on the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, "Ezra, open your mouth and drink what I give you to drink."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.