4. and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of creation.”
5. For they choose to have this hidden from them: that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by the Word of Elohim,
6. through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
7. And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men.
8. But, beloved ones, let not this one matter be hidden from you: that with יהוה one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.