But while He was still speaking, I found myself upon the earth. And I said: “O Eternal, [Mighty One], I am no longer in the glory in which I was (while) on high, and what my soul longed to understand in mine heart I do not understand.”
And He said to me: “What is desired in thine heart I will tell thee, because thou hast sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the heathen, and have prepared beforehand at the passing over of the twelfth hour of the earth.
Hear what I divulge to thee, so shall it come to pass:
The first is pain of great distress; the second, conflagration of many cities;
The third, destruction and pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger of the whole world and of its people;
the fifth by destruction among its rulers, destruction by earthquake and the sword; the sixth, multiplication of hail and snow; the seventh, the wild beasts will be their grave;
The eighth, hunger and pestilence will alternate with their destruction;
The ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in distress; the tenth, thunder and voices and destructive earthquake.