2 Esdras 8:57-59

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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. ⁵⁹ For just as the things that I have predicted await^[a] you, so the thirst and torment that are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that anyone should be destroyed;