2 Esdras 10:43-45

Revised Standard Version

⁴³ and as for her telling you about the misfortune of her son, this is the interpretation: ⁴⁴ This woman whom you saw, whom you now behold as an established city, is Zion.^{[a] 45} And as for her telling you that she was barren for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand^[b] years in the world before any offering was offered in it.^[c]