29. O Lord, you did show yourself among us, to our fathers in the wilderness, when they went forth out of Egypt, and when they came into the wilderness, where no man treadeth and that bears no fruit;
30. and you did say, Hear me, you Israel; and mark my words, O seed of Jacob.
31. For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring forth fruit in you, and you⌃ shall be glorified in it for ever.
32. But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not the statutes: and the fruit of the law did not perish, neither could it, for it was your;
33. yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
34. And, behold, it is a custom, that when the ground has received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, and when it comes to pass that that which is sown, or that which is launched,
35. or the things which have been received, should come to an end, these come to an end, but the receptacles remain: yet with us it has not happened so.