2 Esdras 11:38-40

Common English Bible

³⁸ “Listen, you, and I will speak to you. The Most High says to you, ³⁹ ‘Aren’t you the last of the four beasts that I made to rule in my world so that I might bring about the end of my times through them? ⁴⁰ You, the fourth that has come, conquered all the beasts that came before you, ruling over the world with much terror and over the whole world with harsh oppression. You have lived in the world with deceit for so long!