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when I saw how you tolerate sinners and do not punish them, how you protect your enemies and yet destroy your own people.
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You haven't given the faintest hint as to how these ways of yours can be changed. Surely Babylon is no better than Jerusalem.
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No other nation, except Israel, has ever known you or accepted your covenants.
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But Israel was never rewarded, and never profited from its labor. I have traveled widely in the other nations, and I have seen how prosperous they are, although they don't keep your commands.
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Now then, Lord, if you would just weigh our sins on the scales against those of the rest of the world, it would be perfectly clear that their sins are heavier.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.