2 Esdras 9:2-4

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² then you will know that it is the very time when the Most High is about to visit the world that he has made.^{(A) 3} So when there shall appear in the world earthquakes, tumult of peoples, intrigues of nations, wavering of leaders, confusion of princes,^{(B) 4} then you will know that it was of these that the Most High spoke from the days that were of old, from the beginning.^(C)