10 Then therefore were they chastened That they might be sanctified. (2BA) 11 But now, ye peoples and nations, ye are guilty Because ye have always trodden down the earth, And used the creation unrighteously. (2BA) 12 For I have always benefitted you. And ye have always been ungrateful for the beneficence (2BA)
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