2 Esdras 3:8
King James VersionSource notes
“And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.”
Context
5And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
6And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
7And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him and in his generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds, out of number.
8And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.
9And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.
10And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
11Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.