9 Unless Jehovah of armies himself had left remaining to us just a few survivors,+ we should have become* just like Sodʹom, we should have resembled Go·morʹrah itself.+

18 Just as in the overthrow of Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah and her neighbor [towns],”+ Jehovah has said, “no man will dwell there, and no son of mankind* will reside in her as an alien.+

26 “And people will not take from you a stone for a corner or a stone for foundations,+ because desolate wastes to time indefinite are what you will become,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.