2 Esdras 13:25: "This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a man coming up from the midst of the sea:"

2 Esdras 13:26: "The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind."

2 Esdras 13:27: "And whereas thou sawest, that out of his mouth there came as a blast of wind, and fire, and storm;"

2 Esdras 13:28: "And that he held neither sword, nor any instrument of war, but that the rushing in of him destroyed the whole multitude that came to subdue him; this is the interpretation:"

2 Esdras 13:29: "Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth."

2 Esdras 13:30: "And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the earth."

2 Esdras 13:31: "And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city against another, one place against another, one people against another, and one realm against another."

2 Esdras 13:32: "And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending."

2 Esdras 13:33: "And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another."

2 Esdras 13:34: "And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together," [The valley of decision/battle of Armageddon] "as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting."

2 Esdras 13:35: "But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion."

2 Esdras 13:36: "And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands."

2 Esdras 13:37: "And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;"

2 Esdras 13:38: "And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like unto me."

2 Esdras 13:39: "And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;"

2 Esdras 13:40: "Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land."

2 Esdras 13:41: "But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,"

2 Esdras 13:47: "The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace."

2 Esdras 13:48: "But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders."

2 Esdras 13:49: "Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain."

2 Esdras 13:50: "And then shall he shew them great wonders."