The King James Version Bible

2 Esdras 8:18-21

  1. But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come.

  2. Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said,

  3. O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;

  4. Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,