2 Esdras 6:17-19

Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ When I heard this, I rose to my feet and listened, and behold, a voice was speaking, and its sound was like the sound of many waters. ¹⁸ And it said, “Behold, the days are coming, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit the inhabitants of the earth, ¹⁹ and when I require from the doers of iniquity the penalty of their iniquity, and when the humiliation of Zion is complete,