Moffatt(i)
5 if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men:
6 if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,
7 but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless
8 (for when that righteous man resided among them, by what he saw and heard his righteous soul was vexed day after day with their unlawful doings) —
9 then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,