2 Esdras 8:56-58

Revised Standard Version

⁵⁶ For they also received freedom, but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways. ⁵⁷ Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones, ⁵⁸ and said in their hearts that there is no God—though knowing full well that they must die.