2 Esdras 16:76-78

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷⁶ You who keep my commandments and precepts, says the Lord God, must not let your sins weigh you down, or your iniquities prevail over you. ⁷⁷ Woe to those who are choked by their sins and overwhelmed by their iniquities! They are like a field choked with underbrush and its path^[a] overwhelmed with thorns, so that no one can pass through. ⁷⁸ It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire.