2 Esdras 1:37-39

Revised Standard Version

³⁷ I call to witness the gratitude of the people that is to come, whose children rejoice with gladness; 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, look with pride and see the people coming from the east; ³⁹ to them I will give as leaders Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Hose′a and Amos and Micah and Jo′el and Obadi′ah and Jonah