2 Esdras 11:38-40

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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 that I had made to reign in my world, so that the end of my times might come through them? ⁴⁰ You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before; and you have held sway over the world with great terror, and over all the earth with grievous oppression; and for so long you have lived on the earth with deceit.^[a]