2 Esdras 13:20-22

Revised Standard Version

²⁰ Yet it is better^[a] to come into these things,^[b] though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what shall happen in the last days.”

He answered me and said, ²¹ “I will tell you the interpretation of the vision, and I will also explain to you the things which you have mentioned. ²² As for what you said about those who are left, this is the interpretation: