2 Esdras 6:7: "Then answered I and said, What shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that followeth?"

2 Esdras 6:8: "And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau."

2 Esdras 6:9: "For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth."

Lamentations 4:21: "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked."

2 Esdras 8:1: "And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few."

2 Esdras 8:2: "I will tell thee a similitude, Esdras; As when thou askest the earth, it shall say unto thee, that it giveth much mould whereof earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold cometh of: even so is the course of this present world."

2 Esdras 8:3: "There be many created, but few shall be saved."

Proverbs 2:22: "But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it."