Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.32.21
SB 3.32.21
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tatas te kṣīṇa-sukṛtāḥ punar lokam imaṁ sati patanti vivaśā devaiḥ sadyo vibhraṁśitodayāḥ
Translation
When the results of their pious activities are exhausted, they fall down by higher arrangement and again come back to this planet, just as any person raised to a high position sometimes all of a sudden falls.