2 Esdras 11:16-18

Revised Standard Version

¹⁶ “Hear 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, or even half as long.”

¹⁸ Then the third wing raised itself up, and held the rule like the former ones, and it also disappeared.