²² all its soil burned out by sulphur and salt, unsown and unfruitful, without a blade of grass, like the catastrophe of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(A) Admah and Zeboiim,^[a] which the Lord overthrew in his furious wrath— ^23 (B)they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?” ²⁴ And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

^41 [a](A)Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

⁸ in blazing fire, inflicting punishment on those who do not acknowledge God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(A) 9} These will pay the penalty of eternal ruin, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,^(B)

⁶ and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah [to destruction], reducing them to ashes, making them an example for the godless [people] of what is coming;^(A)

⁷ The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.^(A)