And in those days a king from the east shall come against them and his cavalry shall cover their land. And he shall burn their city with fire together with the holy temple of the Lord, and he shall carry away all the holy vessels. And he shall cast forth all the people, and he shall take them to the land of his birth, yes, he shall take the two tribes with him. Then the two tribes shall call upon the ten tribes, and shall march as a lioness on the dusty plains, being hungry and thirsty. And they shall cry aloud: 'Righteous and holy is the Lord, for, inasmuch as you have sinned, we too, in like manner, have been carried away with you, together with our children.' Then the ten tribes shall mourn on hearing the reproaches of the two tribes, and they shall say: 'What have we done to you, brothers? Has not this tribulation come on all the house of Israel?' And all the tribes shall mourn, crying to heaven and saying: 'God of Abraham God of Isaac and God of Jacob, remember Your covenant which You made with them, and the oath which You swore to them by Yourself, that their seed should never fail from the land which You have given them.' Then they shall remember me, saying, in that day, tribe to tribe and each man to his neighbor:⁠a 'Is not this that which Moses then declared to us in prophecies, who suffered many things in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness during forty years: and assuredly called heaven and earth to witness against us, that we should not transgress His commandments, in which he was a mediator to us? Behold these things have befallen us after his death according to his declaration, as he declared to us at that time, yes, behold these have taken place even to our being carried away captive into the country of the east.' Who shall be also in bondage for about seventy-seven years.