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Yet their reward has not appeared and their labor has borne no fruit. For I have traveled widely among the nations and have seen that they abound in wealth, though they are unmindful of your commandments.
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and have not shown to anyone how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Zion?
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Or has another nation known you besides Israel? Or what tribes have so believed the covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
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Yet their reward has not appeared and their labor has borne no fruit. For I have traveled widely among the nations and have seen that they abound in wealth, though they are unmindful of your commandments.
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Now therefore weigh in a balance our iniquities and those of the inhabitants of the world; and it will be found which way the turn of the scale will incline.
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When have the inhabitants of the earth not sinned in your sight? Or what nation has kept your commandments so well?
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