2 Esdras 5:12-14

Revised Standard Version

¹² And at that time men shall hope but not obtain; they shall labor but their ways shall not prosper. ¹³ These are the signs which 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 awoke, and my body shuddered violently, and my soul was so troubled that it fainted.