2 Esdras 9:3-5

Common English Bible

³ When the movement of places, tumult of peoples, plotting of nations, inconstancy of leaders, and confusion of princes appear in the world, ⁴ then you will understand that it was about these things that the Most High spoke from former days, from the beginning. ⁵ Just as with everything that has happened in the world, the beginning is known from the end,^[a] and the end comes to be seen,