30
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 made it known.
28
"Are their deeds then any better who inhabit Babylon, that they should therefore have the dominion over Zion?
29
For when I came thither and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me.
30
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 made it known.
31
I do not conceive how this way may be left. Are they then of Babylon better than they of Zion?
32
Or is there any other people that knoweth Thee besides Israel? Or what generation hath so believed Thy covenants as Jacob?
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.