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And when you led his descendants out of Egypt, you brought them to Mount Sinai.
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You bent down the heavens and shook the earth, and moved the world, and caused the depths to tremble, and troubled the times.
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Your glory passed through the four gates of fire and earthquake and wind and ice, to give the law to the descendants of Jacob, and your commandment to the posterity of Israel.
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"Yet you did not take away their evil heart from them, so that your law might produce fruit in them.
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For the first Adam, burdened with an evil heart, transgressed and was overcome, as were also all who were descended from him.
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Thus the disease became permanent; the law was in the hearts of the people along with the evil root; but what was good departed, and the evil remained.
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So the times passed and the years were completed, and you raised up for yourself a servant, named David.
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You commanded him to build a city for your name, and there to offer you oblations from what is yours.
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This was done for many years; but the inhabitants of the city transgressed,
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in everything doing just as Adam and all his descendants had done, for they also had the evil heart.
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So you handed over your city to your enemies.