18 when I was preparing for those who now live, before the world was made for them to dwell in. Then no one spoke against me, (WEB) 19 for no one existed. But now those who are created in this world that is prepared, both with a table that doesn’t fail and a law which is unsearchable, are corrupted in their ways. (WEB) 20 So I considered my world, and behold, it was destroyed, and my earth, and behold, it was in peril, because of the plans that had come into it. (WEB)
2 Esdras 9:18–20
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