Second Baruch

And he answered and said to me:

“You also shall be preserved until that time,

until that sign which the Most High is about to work for the inhabitants

of the earth

at the end of days.

This, then, shall be the sign:

When stupor seizes the inhabitants of the earth,

and they fall into many distresses, and again fall into great torments.

And it shall be, when they say in their thoughts because of their great distress,

‘The Mighty One no longer remembers the earth,’

and it shall be, when they lose hope,

then the time shall awake.”