Genesis 19:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ for we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For we will spoil and destroy [Sodom]; for the outcry and shriek against its people has grown great before the Lord, and He has sent us to destroy it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

Common English Bible

¹³ because we are about to destroy this place. The LORD has found the cries of injustice so serious that the LORD sent us to destroy it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For we will eliminate this place, because the outcry among them has increased before the Lord, who sent us to destroy them."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For we will destroy this place; because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

Genesis 19:13 Cross References

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 18:20

Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,

Genesis 19:12

Then the men said to Lot, “Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

Isaiah 36:10

Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear your evil doings and the abominations which you committed; therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

Numbers 16:21

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was eaten by worms and died.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you, till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Jude 1:7

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.