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Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

Abraham approached and said, “Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

Do you really think that one who hates justice can govern? And will you declare guilty the supremely righteous One,

I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?” The Lord is speaking!

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child when I am old?’

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

For I was terrified at the Lord’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well.

Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”

Perhaps then they will ask the Lord for mercy and will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. For the Lord has threatened to bring great anger and wrath against these people.”