17. therefore will I begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;
18. but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.
19. Therefore hear my voice, and understand my saying, and I will speak before you. The beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up. And he said,
20. O Lord, you that abidest for ever, whose eyes are exalted, and whose chambers are in the air;