2 Esdras 8:56-58

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵⁶ For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and abandoned his ways. ⁵⁷ Moreover, they have even trampled on his righteous ones, ⁵⁸ and said in their hearts that there is no God—though they knew well that they must die.