2 Esdras 16:31-33

Common English Bible

³¹ or as in a vineyard that has been harvested a few clusters are left by those who diligently search the vineyard, ³² so in those days three or four will be left by those who search house to house with the sword. ³³ The earth will be left desolate, and its fields will be taken over by thornbushes, and its roads and all its paths will sprout thorns, because sheep won’t pass on them.