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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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Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,
    you have uprooted their cities;(A)
    even the memory of them(B) has perished.

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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.

On the wicked he will rain
    fiery coals and burning sulfur;(A)
    a scorching wind(B) will be their lot.

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

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34 and fruitful land into a salt waste,(A)
    because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

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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.
'Wisdom 10:7' not found for the version: New International Version.

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).
'Sirach 16:8' not found for the version: New International Version.

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.

Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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

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29 But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed 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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if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(A) and made them an example(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(C)

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