2 Esdras 9:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁹ but now those who have been created in this world, which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture,^[a] have become corrupt in their ways. ²⁰ So I considered my world, and saw that it was lost. I saw that my earth was in peril because of the devices of those who^[b] had come into it. ²¹ And I saw and spared some^[c] with great difficulty, and saved for myself one grape out of a cluster, and one plant out of a great forest.^[d]