33
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 thy commandments.
31
and hast not shown to any one how thy way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Zion?
32
Or has another nation known thee besides Israel? Or what tribes have so believed thy covenants as these tribes of Jacob?
33
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 thy commandments.
34
Now therefore weigh in a balance our iniquities and those of the inhabitants of the world; and so it will be found which way the turn of the scale will incline.
35
When have the inhabitants of the earth not sinned in thy sight? Or what nation has kept thy commandments so well?
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.