2 Esdras 9:42-44

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴² I said to her, ‘What has happened to you? Tell me.’

⁴³ And she said to me, ‘Your servant was barren and had no child, though I lived with my husband for thirty years. ⁴⁴ Every hour and every day during those thirty years I prayed to the Most High, night and day.