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,