2 Esdras 4:49-51

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ And after this a cloud full of water passed before me, and it poured down much rain with force, and when the rainstorm had passed there remained drops in the cloud.^[a]

⁵⁰ He said to me, “Consider for yourself: as the rain is greater than the drops and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the measure that has passed is greater, but drops and smoke remain.”

⁵¹ I prayed and said, “Do you think I will live until those days? Who will be alive in those days?”