2 Esdras 8:59

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

2 Esdras 8:59 In-Context

57 Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones,

58 and said in their hearts that there is not God -- though knowing full well that they must die.

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

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

61 Therefore my judgment is now drawing near;