2 Esdras 7:124-126

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

^54 124 because we have lived in perverse ways?^{[a] 55 125} Or that the faces of those who practised self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness? ^56 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.’