2 Esdras 15:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Cities will be thrown into confusion because of their pride. Houses will be destroyed;^[a] people will be afraid. ¹⁹ People will have no mercy on their neighbors. They will cause their neighbors trouble by breaking into their houses with swords, to pillage their property, because they are hungry for bread and in great distress.

²⁰ Look, says the Lord, I am calling together all the kings of the earth, those from the north and from the south, from the east and from Lebanon. I am stirring them up to make them return and restore whatever my people^[b] gave them.