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You rebuked the nations, you destroyed the wicked;
    their name you blotted out for all time.(A)

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And rains upon the wicked
    fiery coals and brimstone,
    a scorching wind their allotted cup.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:6 Their allotted cup: the cup that God gives people to drink is a common figure for their destiny, cf. Ps 16:5; 75:9; Mt 20:22; 26:39; Rev 14:10.

34 Fruitful land into a salty waste,
    because of the wickedness of its people.(A)

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Where as a testimony to its wickedness,
    even yet there remain a smoking desert,
Plants bearing fruit that never ripens,
    and the tomb of a disbelieving soul,[a] a standing pillar of salt.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 Disbelieving soul: Lot’s wife; cf. Gn 19:26.

He did not spare the neighbors of Lot,[a](A)
    abominable in their pride.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:8 Neighbors of Lot: the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, condemned elsewhere for their sexual violence (Gn 19:24–25) and failure at hospitality (Ez 16:49–50).

If the Lord of hosts[a] had not
    left us a small remnant,
We would have become as Sodom,
    would have resembled Gomorrah.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 Lord of hosts: God, who is the Creator and Ruler of the armies of Israel, the angels, stars, etc.

29 on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.

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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;(A)

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