2 Esdras 6:18–28

¹⁸And it said, “Behold, the days are coming, and it shall be that when I draw near to visit the inhabitants of the earth, ¹⁹and when I require from the doers of iniquity the penalty of their iniquity, and when the humiliation of Zion is complete, ²⁰and when the seal is placed upon the age which is about to pass away, then I will show these signs: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and all shall see it together. ²¹Infants a year old shall speak with their voices, and women with child shall give birth to premature children at three and four months, and these shall live and dance. ²²Sown places shall suddenly appear unsown, and full storehouses shall suddenly be found to be empty; ²³and the trumpet shall sound aloud, and when all hear it, they shall suddenly be terrified. ²⁴At that time friends shall make war on friends like enemies, and 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“And it shall be that whoever remains after all that I have foretold to you shall himself be saved and shall see my salvation and the end of my world. ²⁶And they shall see the men who were taken up, who from their birth have not tasted death; and the heart of the earth’s inhabitants shall be changed and converted to a different spirit. ²⁷For 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.”