2 Esdras 9:20

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 had come into it.

2 Esdras 9:20 In-Context

18 For there was a time in this age when I was preparing for those who now exist, before the world was made for them to live in, and no one opposed me then, for no one existed;

19 but now those who have been created in this world, which is supplied both with an unfailing table and an inexhaustible pasture, 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 had come into it.

21 And I saw and spared some with great difficulty, and saved for myself one grape out of a cluster, and one plant out of a great forest.

22 So let the multitude perish that has been born in vain, but let my grape and my plant be saved, because with much labor I have perfected them.

Footnotes

• [a] Cn: Lat [devices that]