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;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people
8. (for day after day that righteous man living among them was tormented in his righteous soul at the lawless deeds that he saw and heard),
9. then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,