2 Esdras 5:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹² At that time people shall hope but not obtain; they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper. ¹³ These are the signs that I am permitted to tell you, and if you pray again and weep as you do now and fast for seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these.”^(A)

Conclusion of the Vision

¹⁴ Then I woke up, and my body shuddered violently, and my soul was so troubled that it fainted.^(B)