2 Esdras 12:2-4

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² and saw that the remaining head had disappeared. The two wings that had gone over to it rose up and^[a] set themselves up to reign, and their reign was brief and full of tumult.^{(A) 3} When I looked again, they were already vanishing. The whole body of the eagle was burned, and the earth was exceedingly terrified.

Then I woke up in great perplexity of mind and great fear, and I said to my spirit, ⁴ “You have brought this upon me because you search out the ways of the Most High.^(B)