2 Esdras 15:42-44

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴² They shall destroy cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the forests, and grass of the meadows, and their grain. ⁴³ They shall go on steadily to Babylon and blot it out. ⁴⁴ They shall come to it and surround it; they shall pour out on it the tempest^[a] and all its fury;^[b] then the dust and smoke shall reach the sky, and all who are around it shall mourn for it.