2 Esdras 11:18-28

18 The third wing rose up and governed as the earlier ones had done; then it also vanished.
19 The same thing happened to all the other wings: one after the other they rose to power and then vanished.
20 I kept looking, and after a while the other small wings on the right side rose up to seize power. Some of them governed briefly and quickly disappeared,
21 while others rose up but were never able to govern.
22 Then I noticed that the twelve large wings and two of the small wings had disappeared.
23 Nothing was left on the eagle's body except the three sleeping heads and the six small wings.
24 I kept watching, and suddenly two of the six small wings left the others and moved under the head on the right side, while the other four remained where they were.
25 Then I saw that these four small wings were plotting to rise up and seize power.
26 One of them rose up, but it quickly disappeared.
27 The second one also rose up, but it disappeared even more quickly than the first.
28 I saw that the two remaining small wings were also plotting to seize control for themselves.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.