²² Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.^{(A) 23} The whole land will be a burning waste^(B) of salt^(C) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(D) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^{(E) 24} All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(F) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me,^(A) you who are cursed, into the eternal fire^(B) prepared for the devil and his angels.^(C)

⁸ He will punish^(A) those who do not know God^(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(C) 9} They will be punished with everlasting destruction^(D) and shut out from the presence of the Lord^(E) and from the glory of his might^(F)

⁶ if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,^(A) and made them an example^(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;^(C)

⁷ By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,^(A) being kept for the day of judgment^(B) and destruction of the ungodly.