2 Esdras 15:34-45

Common English Bible

³⁴ Look! Angry storm clouds from the east and from the north to the south—their appearance is very terrible. ³⁵ They will collide with each other and unleash a mighty tempest on the earth, their own tempest. Blood will flow as high as the belly of a horse, ³⁶ a man’s thigh, and a camel’s hock because of their swords. Great fear and terror will be on earth. ³⁷ Those who see that wrath will be horrified and seized by fear.

³⁸ After this, the mighty clouds will be moved from the south and the north, and another portion from the west. ³⁹ But the winds from the east will prevail and will stop them, together with the cloud it had stirred up in wrath. The tempest that was to cause destruction will be driven violently from the east to the west. ⁴⁰ Great, angry storm clouds will be raised up so that they may destroy the whole earth and its inhabitants, and they will unleash over every high and lofty place a terrible tempest— ⁴¹ fire and hail, flying swords, and much water—so that all the fields and all the streams will be filled with the great quantity of those waters. ⁴² They will destroy cities, walls, mountains and hills, trees in the forests, grass in the meadows, and their grain. ⁴³ They will proceed steadily to Babylon to destroy it. ⁴⁴ They will come to it, surround it, and pour out their tempest and all their wrath over it. Dust and smoke will go up to heaven, and all around will mourn it. ⁴⁵ Those who survive will serve those who destroyed it.