2 Esdras 1:36-38

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁶ They have seen no prophets, yet will recall their former state.^{[a] 37} I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness;^[b] though they do not see me with bodily eyes, yet with the spirit they will believe the things I have said.

³⁸ ‘And now, father,^[c] look with pride and see the people coming from the east;