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

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(A) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(B)

⁹ “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(A) is shaken in a sieve,^(B)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(C)