2 Esdras 3:33-35

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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 your commandments. ³⁴ Now therefore weigh in a balance our iniquities and those of the inhabitants of the world, and it will be found which way the arrow of the scale tips.^{(A) 35} When have the inhabitants of the earth not sinned in your sight? Or what nation has kept your commandments so well?