Perhaps there are fifty righteous ones within the city; is it so You will cut off and will not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones that are within it?
Far be it from You to act in this way, to put to death the righteous one with the wicked one. Far be it from You. The Judge of all the earth, shall He not do justice?
And he said, I pray, let not my Lord be angry that I may speak only this time; perhaps ten will be found there. And He said, I will not destroy because of the ten.
Roam around in Jerusalem’s streets and see now, and know, and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.