2 Esdras 16:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³¹ so in those days three or four shall be left by those who search their houses with the sword. ³² The earth shall be left desolate, and its fields shall be ploughed up,^[a] and its roads and all its paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep will go along them. ³³ Virgins shall mourn because they have no bridegrooms; women shall mourn because they have no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, because they have no help.