Isaiah 40:17
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17 All the nations are as nothing before him;
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.(A)
2 Esdras 4:23
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23 For I did not wish to inquire about the ways above but about those things that we daily experience: why Israel has been given over to the nations in disgrace; why the people whom you loved has been given over to godless tribes and the law of our ancestors has been brought to destruction and the written covenants no longer exist.(A)
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2 Esdras 5:28
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28 And now, O Lord, why have you handed the one over to the many and dishonored[a] the one root beyond the others and scattered your only one among the many?(A)
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- 5.28 Syr Ethiop Arab: Lat prepared
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