2 Esdras 16:30-32

Revised Standard Version

³⁰ or as when a vineyard is gathered some clusters may be left 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 And the earth shall be left desolate, and its fields shall be for briers, and its roads and all its paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep will go along them.