2 Esdras 16:22-24

Common English Bible

²² Look! In a short time provisions will be so cheap on earth that people will think that peace has been established for them, but then disasters will blossom all over the earth—the sword and famine. ²³ They will lack life’s necessities, and the sword will scatter those who survive the famine. ²⁴ The dead will be tossed out like dung, and there will be no one to console them, for the earth will be left abandoned, and its cities will be cast down.