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

⁹ For my own name’s sake^(A) I delay my wrath;^(B)
    for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you,
    so as not to destroy you completely.^(C)