For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall give you to be a ruined city, like the cities that do not have ones living in them, when I shall bring up on you the deep, and great waters shall cover you.
even as it is written, “I have appointed you a father of many nations”; before God, whom he believed, the One making the dead ones live, and calling the things not being as if being, Gen. 17:5