rations
had done: for they also had a wicked heart:

2 Esdr 3:27
And so thou gavest thy city over into the hands of thine enemies.

2 Esdr 3:28
Are their deeds then any better that inhabit Babylon, that they
should therefore have the dominion over Sion?

2 Esdr 3:29
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.

2 Esdr 3:30
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 signified it.

2 Esdr 3:31
I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of
Babylon better than they of Sion?

2 Esdr 3:32
Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel?
or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?

2 Esdr 3:33
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.

2 Esdr 3:34
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.

2 Esdr 3:35
Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not
sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy
commandments?

2 Esdr 3:36
Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts;
but not the heathen.

2 Esdr 4:1
And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel, gave
me an answer,

2 Esdr 4:2
And said, Thy heart hath gone to far in this world, and thinkest
thou to comprehend the way of the most High?

2 Esdr 4:3
Then said I, Yea, my lord. And he answered me, and said, I am
sent to shew thee three ways, and to set forth three similitudes
before thee:

2 Esdr 4:4
Whereof if thou canst declare me one, I will shew thee also
the way that thou desirest to see, and I shall shew thee from
whence the wicked heart cometh.

2 Esdr 4:5
And I said, Tell on, my lord. Then said he unto me, Go thy
way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of
the wind, or call me again the day that is past.

2 Esdr 4:6
Then answered I and said, What man is able to do that, that
thou shouldest ask such things of me?

2 Esdr 4:7
And he said unto me, If I should ask thee how great dwellings
are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the
beginning of the