2 Esdras 12:29-31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

²⁹ “As for your seeing two little wings^[a] passing over to^[b] the head that was on the right side,^{(A) 30} this is the interpretation: It is these whom the Most High has kept for the eagle’s^[c] end; this was the reign that was brief and full of tumult, as you have seen.^(B)

³¹ “And as for the lion whom you saw rousing up out of the forest and roaring and speaking to the eagle and reproving him for his unrighteousness, and as for all his words that you have heard,^(C)