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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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I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?
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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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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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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.