²⁰ `Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'

⁶ and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';

⁷ and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

¹⁶ While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'

²⁹ and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

³⁰ `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

¹ And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

² and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

³ No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁴ `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

⁵ No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

²⁷ Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.

²⁸ For ye say, `Where `is' the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'

²⁶ All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

¹⁸ He is giving back `what' he laboured for, And doth not consume `it'; As a bulwark `is' his exchange, and he exults not.

¹⁹ For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

³⁰ He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

⁶ Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

⁴ If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

²⁴ and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;