2 Esdras 7:22-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

they devised for themselves vain thoughts,
²³     and proposed to themselves wicked frauds;
they even declared that the Most High does not exist,
    and they ignored his ways.
²⁴ They scorned his law,
    and denied his covenants;
they have been unfaithful to his statutes,
    and have not performed his works.