2 Esdras 12:40

40 Then he left me. When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn't returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,

2 Esdras 12:40 In-Context

38 Teach these matters to the wise among your people, whose minds you know can grasp and keep these secrets.
39 But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you."
40 Then he left me. When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn't returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,
41 "How have we sinned against you? What wrong did we do to you that you abandon us and sit in this place?
42 You are the only one of all the prophets left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vineyard, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from a storm.
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