32. God is a just judge, so after a while he took away what he had given you.
33. Now you are in exile here, but you are closer to Jerusalem than some of your fellow-Jews.
34. But if you will discipline your thoughts and be willing to learn, you will be kept safe in this life and will be granted mercy after death,
35. for Judgement Day comes after death. We will be brought back to life, and the righteous people will be made known, while what the godless people have done will be exposed.
36. But now for forty days, no one is to come near me or try to find me.”
37. As I had been commanded, I took the five men, and we went to the field and stayed there.
38. On the next day I suddenly heard a voice saying, “Ezra, open your mouth and drink what I am giving you.”
39. So I opened my mouth, and I was handed a cup full of a fiery-coloured liquid,