2 Esdras 3:33
King James VersionSource notes
“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.”
Context
30For 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.
31I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?
32Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel? or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?
33And 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.
34Weigh 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.
35Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?
36Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.