King James Version with Apocrypha
“I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,”
— 2 Esdras 7:62, King James Version with Apocrypha
For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
And upon those also that turn to his law;
And that he is patient, and long suffereth those that have sinned, as his creatures;
And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it needeth;