2 Esdras 12:32-42

32 this is the anointed one. The Most High has kept him for the end of days. He will arise from the line of David, and he will come and speak to them. He will denounce their wicked acts and indict them for their injustice. He will set before them their despicable deeds.
33 He will put them on trial while they are still alive, and after he has convicted them, he will destroy them.
34 Yet he will mercifully liberate the remaining few from my people who are saved throughout my territory. He will make them joyful until the end comes—the Judgment Day, of which I have spoken to you from the beginning.
35 "This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
36 You alone were counted worthy to know this secret of the Most High.
37 Therefore, write all these things that you saw in a scroll and hide it away.
38 Teach these matters to the wise among your people, whose minds you know can grasp and keep these secrets.
39 But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you."
40 Then he left me. When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn't returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,
41 "How have we sinned against you? What wrong did we do to you that you abandon us and sit in this place?
42 You are the only one of all the prophets left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vineyard, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from a storm.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lat omits of days, who will arise from the line of David, and who will come and speak.
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