34
He answered me and said, "Do not be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You, indeed, are in a hurry for yourself, but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many.
32
When heads of grain without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!"
33
Then I answered and said, "How long? When will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?"
34
He answered me and said, "Do not be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You, indeed, are in a hurry for yourself, but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many.
35
Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, "How long are we to remain here? And when will the harvest of our reward come?'
36
And the archangel Jeremiel answered and said, "When the number of those like yourselves is completed; for he has weighed the age in the balance,
Footnotes 1
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Syr Ethiop Arab Arm: Meaning of Lat uncertain
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