2 Esdras 3:16-32
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16 And unto him thou gavest Isaac, and unto Isaac also thou gavest Jacob and Esau. As for Jacob, thou didst choose him to thee, and put by Esau: and so Jacob became a great multitude.
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17 And it came to pass, that when thou leadest his seed out of Egypt, thou broughtest them up to the mount Sinai.
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18 And bowing the heavens, thou didst set fast the earth, movedst the whole world, and madest the depths to tremble, and troubledst the men of that age.
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19 And thy glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that thou mightest give the law unto the seed of Jacob, and diligence unto the generation of Israel.
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20 And yet tookest thou not away from them a wicked heart, that thy law might bring forth fruit in them.
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21 For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.
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22 Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the heart of the people with the malignity of the root; so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still.
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23 So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then didst thou raise thee up a servant, called David:
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24 Whom thou commandedst to build a city unto thy name, and to offer incense and oblations unto thee therein.
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25 When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee,
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26 And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart:
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27 And so thou gavest thy city over into the hands of thine enemies.
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28 Are their deeds then any better that inhabit Babylon, that they should therefore have the dominion over Sion?
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29 For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me.
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30 For I have seen how thou sufferest them sinning, and hast spared wicked doers: and hast destroyed thy people, and hast preserved thine enemies, and hast not signified it.
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31 I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?
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32 Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel? or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?