2 Esdras 3:27-36
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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?
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33 And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.
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34 Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and their's also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel.
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35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?
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36 Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.