2 Esdras 3:31–36

³¹I do not remember how this way may be left: ^fAre they then of Babylon better than they of Sion? ³²Or is there any other people that knoweth thee besides Israel? or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob? ³³And 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. ³⁴Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell in the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel. ³⁵Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people hath so kept thy commandments? ³⁶Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.

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