So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.
Proverbs 21:12 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he casts the wicked down to ruin. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: But God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The [uncompromisingly] righteous man considers well the house of the wicked–how the wicked are cast down to ruin. American Standard Version (1901) The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin. Common English Bible The righteous one observes the house of the wicked, turning the wicked toward trouble. Catholic Public Domain Version The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil. |
So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.
If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.
Let those who are wise give heed to these things, and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.
The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.
The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.
When the wicked are in authority, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall.
Those who are wise understand these things; those who are discerning know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.