2 Esdras 8:58-60

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⁵⁸ and said in their hearts that there is no God—though they knew well that they must die.^{(A) 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,^{(B) 60} but those who were created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for them now.