2 Esdras 8:55-57

Revised Standard Version

⁵⁵ Therefore do not ask any more questions about the multitude of those who perish. ⁵⁶ For they also received freedom, but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways. ⁵⁷ Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones,