2 Esdras 12:30-32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³⁰ this is the interpretation: It is these whom the Most High has kept for the eagle’s^[a] end; this was the reign that was brief and full of tumult, as you have seen.^(A)

³¹ “And as for the lion whom you saw rousing up out of the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and reproving him for his unrighteousness, and as for all his words that you have heard,^{(B) 32} this is the Messiah whom the Most High has kept until the end of days, who will arise from the offspring of David and will come and speak^[b] with them. He will denounce them for their ungodliness and for their wickedness and will display before them their contemptuous dealings.^(C)