World English Bible

2 Esdras 12:12-18 World English Bible (WEB)

12. But it was not expounded to him, as I now expound it to you or have expounded it.

13. Behold, the days come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.

14. In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:

15. whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have a longer time than any of the twelve.

16. This is the interpretation of the twelve wings, which you saw.

17. And whereas you heard a voice which spoke, not going out from the heads, but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:

18. That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise no small contentions, and it shall stand in peril of falling: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to its first estate.