2 Esdras 4:26

26 He answered me and said, "If you are alive, you will see, and if you live long, you will often marvel, because the age is hastening swiftly to its end.

2 Esdras 4:26 In-Context

24 and why we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a mist, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

25 But what will he do for his name, by which we are called? It is about these things that I have asked."

26 He answered me and said, "If you are alive, you will see, and if you live long, you will often marvel, because the age is hastening swiftly to its end.

27 For it will not be able to bring the things that have been promised to the righteous in their appointed times, because this age is full of sadness and infirmities.

28 For the evil about which you ask me has been sown, but the harvest of it has not yet come.