2 Esdras 11:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Then a voice rang out, saying to this wing, ¹⁶ “Listen, you who have held sway over the earth all this time. I announce^[a] this to you before you begin to disappear. ¹⁷ No one after you will hold sway as long a time—not even half as long.”