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23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and (A)salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, (B)an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, (C)Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

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16 Let that man be like (A)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(B)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,

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40 (A)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring cities, declares the Lord, (B)so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

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(A)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
    than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(B)which was overthrown in a moment,
    and no hands were wrung for her.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
  2. Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
  3. Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

11 “I overthrew some of you,
    (A)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were (B)as a brand[a] plucked out of the burning;
(C)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:11 That is, a burning stick

Therefore, (A)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (B)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (C)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste for ever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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29 (A)but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

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if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly