2 Esdras 6:18–28

¹⁸It said, “The days are coming 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.^{* 20}When the seal is placed upon the age that is about to pass away, then I will show these signs: the books shall be opened before the face of the firmament, and all shall see my judgment^j together.^{* 21}Children a year old shall speak with their voices, and pregnant women shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and leap about. ²²Sown places shall suddenly appear unsown, and full storehouses shall suddenly be found to be empty; ²³the trumpet shall sound aloud, and when all hear it they shall suddenly be terrified.^{* 24}At that time friends shall make war on friends like enemies, the earth and those who inhabit it shall be terrified, and the springs of the fountains shall stand still, so that for three hours they shall not flow.^*

²⁵“It shall be that whoever remains after all that I have foretold to you shall be saved and shall see my salvation and the end of my world.^{* 26}And they shall see those who were taken up, who from their birth have not tasted death, and the heart of the earth’s^k inhabitants shall be changed and converted to a different spirit.^{* 27}For evil shall be blotted out, and deceit shall be quenched; ²⁸faithfulness shall flourish, and corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, shall be revealed.”^*