2 Esdras 16:22-24

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²² Indeed, provisions will be so cheap upon earth that people will imagine that peace is assured for them, and then calamities shall spring up on the earth—the sword, famine, and great confusion.^{(A) 23} For many of those who live on the earth shall perish by famine, and those who survive the famine shall die by the sword. ²⁴ And the dead shall be thrown out like dung, and there shall be no one to console them, for the earth shall be left desolate, and its cities shall be demolished.^(B)