2 Esdras 16:72-74

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷² For they shall destroy and plunder their goods, and drive them out of house and home. ⁷³ Then the tested quality of my elect shall be manifest, like gold that is tested by fire.

Promise of Divine Deliverance

⁷⁴ Listen, my elect ones, says the Lord; the days of tribulation are at hand, but I will deliver you from them.