2 Esdras 14:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ put away short-lived thoughts, cast off from yourself human burdens, strip off your weak nature, push aside the thoughts that most trouble you, and hasten to depart from these times. ¹⁵ As for the evils that you have now seen happen, people will yet do worse than these. ¹⁶ The weaker the world^[a] becomes because of old age, the more will evils multiply upon those who dwell in it.