⁹ Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,^(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.^(B)

²⁵ “I, even I, am he who blots out
    your transgressions,^(A) for my own sake,^(B)
    and remembers your sins^(C) no more.^(D)

³⁴ No longer will they teach^(A) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know^(B) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive^(C) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins^(D) no more.”

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,^(A)
    only the remnant will be saved.^(B)