1 Esdras 4:36-38

Revised Standard Version

³⁶ The whole earth calls upon truth, and heaven blesses her. All God’s^[a] works quake and tremble, and with him there is nothing unrighteous. ³⁷ Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, all the sons of men are unrighteous, all their works are unrighteous, and all such things. There is no truth in them and in their unrighteousness they will perish. ³⁸ But truth endures and is strong for ever, and lives and prevails for ever and ever.