when Adonai said, “Should I keep secret from Abraham what I am about to do,
Genesis 18:26 - Tree of Life Version Then Adonai said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous people within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord said, If I find in the city of Sodom fifty righteous (upright and in right standing with God), I will spare the whole place for their sake. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. Common English Bible The LORD said, “If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom, I will save it because of them.” Catholic Public Domain Version And the Lord said to him, "If I find in Sodom fifty of the just in the midst of the city, I will release the entire place because of them." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said to him: If I And in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake. |
when Adonai said, “Should I keep secret from Abraham what I am about to do,
For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed. Justice overflows.
In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the earth.
Though a tenth still be in it, it will again be burned. As a terebinth tree or as an oak whose stump remains when cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump.”
Thus says Adonai: “As new wine is found in a cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,’ so I will do for My servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Roam the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares! If you can find a person, if there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, then I will pardon the city.
I searched for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.