4. A city's population may grow because of the wisdom of one person, while a whole tribe of lawless people disappears.
5. I have seen such things many times and have heard of even more striking examples.
6. The Lord's flaming anger will break out against a small gathering of sinners or a disobedient nation.
7. He did not forgive those ancient giants who rebelled against him, confident of their own strength.
8. He detested the arrogance of the people among whom Lot lived, and he did not spare them.
9. He showed no mercy on that nation which he doomed to destruction for its sins,
10. nor on those 600,000 people on the march through the wilderness who gathered together in stubborn rebellion.