2 Esdras 11:17

17 No one after you will hold sway as long a time—not even half as long."

2 Esdras 11:17 In-Context

15 Then a voice rang out, saying to this wing,

16 "Listen, you who have held sway over the earth all this time. I announce this to you before you begin to disappear.

17 No one after you will hold sway as long a time—not even half as long."

18 A third wing raised itself up, and it also exercised rulership like the previous ones, and it too disappeared.

19 And so it happened to each of the wings in turn, to come to power and then never to be seen again.