2 Esdras 3:23-27

Revised Standard Version

²³ So the times passed and the years were completed, and thou didst raise up for thyself a servant, named David. ²⁴ And thou didst command him to build a city for thy name, and in it to offer thee oblations from what is thine. ²⁵ This was done for many years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed, ²⁶ in everything doing as Adam and all his descendants had done, for they also had the evil heart. ²⁷ So thou didst deliver the city into the hands of thy enemies.