2 Esdras 8:59

59 For just as the things that I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment that are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that anyone should be destroyed;

2 Esdras 8:59 In-Context

57 Moreover, they have even trampled on his righteous ones,

58 and said in their hearts that there is no God—though they knew well that they must die.

59 For just as the things that I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment that are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that anyone should be destroyed;

60 but those who were created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them, and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for them now.

61 Therefore my judgment is now drawing near;

Footnotes

• [a]. Syr: Lat [will receive]