2 Esdras 11:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ ‘Listen to me, you who have ruled the earth all this time; I announce this to you before you disappear. ¹⁷ After you no one shall rule as long as you have ruled, not even half as long.’

¹⁸ Then the third wing raised itself up, and held the rule as the earlier ones had done, and it also disappeared.