2 Esdras 15:58-60

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⁵⁸ Those who are in the mountains and highlands^[a] shall perish of hunger, and they shall eat their own flesh in hunger for bread and drink their own blood in thirst for water.^{(A) 59} Unhappy above all others, you shall come and suffer fresh miseries. ⁶⁰ As they pass by they shall crush the hateful^[b] city and shall destroy a part of your land and abolish a portion of your glory, when they return from devastated Babylon.