11 One country will ask another, ‘Has righteousness, or a man that does righteousness, gone through you?’ And it will say, ‘No.’ (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:11
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2 Esdras 3:34–36
34 Weigh therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also who dwell in the world, and so will it be found which way the scale inclines. (WEB) 35 Or when was it that they who dwell on the earth have not sinned in your sight? Or what nation has kept your command… (WEB)
Jeremiah 22:7–9
7 I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire. 8 And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great ci…
2 Baruch 77:9–11
9 Or do ye perchance think that the place had sinned, And that on this account it was overthrown? Or that the land had wrought foolishness, And that therefore it was delivered up? (2BA) 10 And know ye not that on account of you who did sin, That which sinned not was over… (2BA)
Jeremiah 6:17–19
17 I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’ 18 Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them. 19 Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the…
Judith 5:20–22
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Psalms 56:6–8
6 They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life. 7 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations. 8 You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
Sirach 16:21–23
21 Like a tempest which no man can see, so, the majority of his works are hidden. (WEB) 22 Who will declare his works of righteousness? Who will wait for them? For his covenant is afar off. (WEB) 23 He who is lacking in understanding thinks about these things. An unwise and erring… (WEB)
Job 12:8–10
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 10 The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
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