2 Esdras 13:29-39

29 The days are coming when the Most High will deliver those who are on the earth.
30 And bewilderment of mind shall come over those who inhabit the earth.
31 They shall plan to make war against one another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom.
32 When these things take place and the signs occur that I showed you before, then my Son will be revealed, whom you saw as a man coming up from the sea.
33 "Then, when all the nations hear his voice, all the nations shall leave their own lands and the warfare that they have against one another;
34 and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, wishing to come and conquer him.
35 But he shall stand on the top of Mount Zion.
36 And Zion shall come and be made manifest to all people, prepared and built, as you saw the mountain carved out without hands.
37 Then he, my Son, will reprove the assembled nations for their ungodliness (this was symbolized by the storm),
38 and will reproach them to their face with their evil thoughts and the torments with which they are to be tortured (which were symbolized by the flames), and will destroy them without effort by means of the law (which was symbolized by the fire).
39 "And as for your seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable,

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Syr and most Lat Mss lack [from the sea]
  • [b]. Syr: Lat [effort and the law]
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