2 Esdras 11:37–46

³⁷And I looked, and behold, a creature like a lion was aroused out of the forest, roaring; and I heard how he uttered a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying, ³⁸“Listen and I will speak to you. The Most High says to you, ³⁹‘Are you not the one that remains of the four beasts which I had made to reign in my world, so that the end of my times might come through them? ⁴⁰You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before; and you have held sway over the world with much terror, and over all the earth with grievous oppression; and for so long you have dwelt on the earth with deceit. ⁴¹And you have judged the earth, but not with truth; ⁴²for you have afflicted the meek and injured the peaceable; you have hated those who tell the truth, and have loved liars; you have destroyed the dwellings of those who brought forth fruit, and have laid low the walls of those who did you no harm. ⁴³And so your insolence has come up before the Most High, and your pride to the Mighty One. ⁴⁴And the Most High has looked upon his times, and behold, they are ended, and his ages are completed! ⁴⁵Therefore you will surely disappear, you eagle, and your terrifying wings, and your most evil little wings, and your malicious heads, and your most evil talons, and your whole worthless body, ⁴⁶so that the whole earth, freed from your violence, may be refreshed and relieved, and may hope for the judgment and mercy of him who made it.’ ”