The land that you now see ruling will be a trackless waste, and men will see it desolate.
KJV
2 Esdras 5:3
And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly.
Parallel Translations
And it shal come to passe, that one shal set in fote, and thou shalt se the land desolate, which now reigneth.