2 Esdras 16:30-32

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁰ or just as, when a vineyard is gathered, some clusters may be left^[a] by those who search carefully through the vineyard, ³¹ so in those days three or four shall be left by those who search their houses with the sword. ³² The earth shall be left desolate, and its fields shall be ploughed up,^[b] and its roads and all its paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep will go along them.