2 Esdras 11:39

39 `Art not thou it that remainest of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in My world, that the end of their times might come through them?

2 Esdras 11:39 In-Context

37 And I beheld, and lo, as it were a roaring lion, chased out of the wood. And I saw that he sent out a man's voice unto the eagle and said,
38 "Hear thou, I will talk with thee. And the Highest shall say unto thee,
39 `Art not thou it that remainest of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in My world, that the end of their times might come through them?
40 And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and had power over the world with great fearfulness and over the whole compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so a long time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit.
41 For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
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