15. and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his seed.
16. And to him you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. And you did set apart Jacob for yourself, but did put by Esau: and Jacob became a great multitude.
17. And it came to pass, that when you led his seed out of Egypt, you brought them up to the mount Sinai.
18. You bowed the heavens also, and did shake the earth, and movedst the whole world, and made the depths to tremble, and troubled the course of that age.
19. And your glory went through four gates, of fire, and of earthquake, and of wind, and of cold; that you might give the law to the seed of Jacob, and the commandment to the generation of Israel.
20. And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.
21. For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.
22. Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was wicked abode still.
23. So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end: then did you raise you up a servant, called David,
24. whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer oblations to you therein of your own.
25. When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city did evil,
26. in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a wicked heart:
27. and so you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies.
28. And I said then in mine heart, are their deeds any better that inhabit Babylon? and has she therefore dominion over Sion?