2 Esdras 7:72-74

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷² For this reason, therefore, those who live on earth shall be tormented, because though they had understanding, they committed iniquity; and though they received the commandments, they did not keep them; and though they obtained the law, they dealt unfaithfully with what they received. ⁷³ What, then, will they have to say in the judgement, or how will they answer in the last times? ⁷⁴ How long the Most High has been patient with those who inhabit the world!—and not for their sake, but because of the times that he has foreordained.’