The Lord is near unto them that turn to Him, as it is written in the book of Eldad and Modad, who prophesied to the people in the wilderness.
2Far be from you that scripture where it saith: Miserable are the double-minded which doubt in their soul, which say: These things we heard in our fathers' days also, and lo, we have grown old and nothing of these things hath befallen us.
3O foolish ones, compare yourselves to a tree; take the vine: first it sheddeth the leaf, then a shoot cometh, after that a sour berry, then a cluster fully ripe.
4So also my people hath had unquietnesses and afflictions: afterward it shall receive good things.