2 Esdras 5:42

42 And He said unto me, "I will liken My judgment unto a ring: as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first."

2 Esdras 5:42 In-Context

40 Then said He unto me, "As thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out My judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto My people."

41 And I said, "Behold, O Lord, yet art Thou nigh unto those who are reserved till the end; and what shall they do who have been before me, or we who are now, or those who shall come after us?"

42 And He said unto me, "I will liken My judgment unto a ring: as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first."

43 So I answered and said, "Couldest Thou not make those who have been made and who are now and who are to come, at once, that Thou mightest show Thy judgment the sooner?"

44 Then answered He me, and said, "The creature may not hasten above the Maker, neither may the world hold those at once who shall be created therein."