2 Esdras 10:43-45

Common English Bible

⁴³ and who told you about the fate of her son. ⁴⁴ This woman whom you saw is Zion, whom you now see built as a city. ⁴⁵ As for what she said to you, that she was infertile for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand^[a] years in the world when offerings weren’t yet made in her.