2 Esdras 1:37-39

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁷ I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness;^[a] 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,^[b] look with pride and see the people coming from the east; ³⁹ to them I will give as leaders Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Hosea and Amos and Micah and Joel and Obadiah and Jonah