2 Esdras 13

14 You have showed your servant these wonders from the beginning,and have counted me worthy that you should receive my prayer:

15 and now show me moreover the interpretation of this
dream.

16 For as I conceive in my understanding, woe to
those who shall be left in those days! and

much more woe to those who are not left!

17 for those who were not left shall be in heaviness,

18 understanding the things that are laid up in the latter days,but not attaining to them.

19 But woe to themal so that are left, for this cause; for they shall see great perils and many necessities, like as these dreams declare.

20 Yet is it † better for one to be in peril and to come into ‡ these things, than to pass away as a cloud out
of the world, and not to see the things that § shall happen in the last days. And he answered to me, and said,

21 The interpretation of the vision shall I tell you, and I will also open to you the things whereof you have made mention.

22 Whereas you have spoken of those who are left behind, this is the interpretation:

23 He that shall * endure the peril in that time shall keep those who are fallen into danger, even such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.

24 Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than those who are dead.