2 Esdras 7:60-62

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶⁰ So also will be the judgement^[a] that I have promised; for I will rejoice over the few who shall be saved, because it is they who have made my glory prevail now, and through them my name has now been honoured. ⁶¹ I will not grieve over the great number 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.’

Lamentation of Ezra, with Response

⁶² I replied and said, ‘O earth, what have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of the dust like the other created things?