2 Esdras 3:12

12 "The number of people living on earth began to increase, and the number of families, tribes, and nations grew. They too fell into sin and were worse than the generations before them.

2 Esdras 3:12 In-Context

10 They all suffered the same fate: as death had come to Adam, so now death came to a whole generation in the flood.

11 But you spared one man, Noah, with his family and all his righteous descendants.

12 "The number of people living on earth began to increase, and the number of families, tribes, and nations grew. They too fell into sin and were worse than the generations before them.

13 But then you chose Abraham.

14 You loved him, and to him alone in the dead of night, you secretly disclosed how the world would end.