2 Esdras 10:25-27

Common English Bible

²⁵ While I was speaking to her, look! Suddenly her face shone brightly and her countenance became a flashing splendor. I became afraid of her, and I wondered what was happening. ²⁶ Without warning she let out a noise, a great voice full of fear, so that the earth itself shook with the sound. ²⁷ I watched, and she no longer appeared to me as a woman, but there was a city built, and a place with great foundations appeared. I was afraid, and I shouted with a great voice,