Genesis 19:23-29

New Catholic Bible

²³ The sun was rising when Lot arrived in Zoar. ²⁴ The Lord then rained sulfur and fire from the heavens upon Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ He destroyed these cities and the entire valley and all the inhabitants of the cities and even the plants in the soil. ²⁶ But the wife of Lot looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Abraham went out early in the morning to the place where he had been with the Lord. ²⁸ He looked down from the height on Sodom and Gomorrah and the entire extension of the valley, and he saw smoke rising out of the earth, like the smoke coming out of a furnace.

²⁹ Thus God, who destroyed the cities of the valley, remembered Abraham and had Lot flee from the disaster, while he destroyed the cities in which Lot had been living.