2 Esdras 7:59-61

Revised Standard Version

⁵⁹ He answered me and said, “Weigh within yourself^[a] what you have thought, for he who has what is hard to get rejoices more than he who has what is plentiful. ⁶⁰ So also will be the judgment^[b] which I have promised; for I will rejoice over the few who shall be saved, because it is they who have made my glory to prevail now, and through them my name has now been honored. ⁶¹ And I will not grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for it is they who are now like a mist, and are similar to a flame and smoke—they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are extinguished.”