2 Esdras 4:48-50

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ I stood aside and looked, and right there a burning furnace passed before me, and when the flame had passed, I looked and the smoke remained. ⁴⁹ And after this a cloud full of water passed before me, and it poured down much rain with force, and when the rainstorm had passed there remained drops in the cloud.^[a]

⁵⁰ He said to me, “Consider for yourself: as the rain is greater than the drops and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the measure that has passed is greater, but drops and smoke remain.”