2 Esdras 5:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² At that time people shall hope but not obtain; they shall labour, 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.’

Conclusion of the Vision

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