Suppose the fifty righteous people are lacking five. Will You destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Genesis 18:27 - Tree of Life Version Then Abraham answered and said, “Look, pray, I have decided to speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Abraham answered, Behold now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes: Common English Bible Abraham responded, “Since I’ve already decided to speak with my Lord, even though I’m just soil and ash, Catholic Public Domain Version And Abraham responded by saying: "Since now I have begun, I will speak to my Lord, though I am dust and ashes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. |
Suppose the fifty righteous people are lacking five. Will You destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”
Then Adonai Elohim formed the man out of the dust from the ground and He breathed into his nostrils a breath of life—so the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”
I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Adonai, what is man, that You take note of him? Or the son of man, that You consider him?
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You established—
Then Moses sought Adonai his God and said, “Adonai, why should Your wrath burn hot against Your people, whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Then I said: “Oy to me! For I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am dwelling among a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, Adonai-Tzva’ot!”
Do not be angry much more, Adonai, or remember iniquity forever. Oh, please see, we are all Your people!
Then Yeshua told them a parable to show that they should always pray and not be discouraged,
But when Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Yeshua’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Master, for I am a sinful man!”