A time of great death is coming

2 Esdras 16:17-18 KJV
17) Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?
18) The beginning of sorrows and great mournings; the beginning of famine and great death; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils! what shall I do when these evils shall come?

2 Esdras 8:50 KJV
For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.

2 Esdras 15:5-6 KJV
5) Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
6) For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.

2 Esdras 5:1 KJV
Nevertheless as coming the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.

2 Esdras 9:11-12 KJV
11) And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;
12) The same must know it after death by pain.