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Genesis 19:24

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and the LORD sent burning sulphur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.

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This happened before the LORD had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the LORD or the land of Egypt.

Abram stayed in the land of Canaan. But Lot settled near the cities of the valley and put up his tents not far from Sodom,

The LORD said to himself, “I should tell Abraham what I am going to do,

The sun was coming up as Lot reached the town of Zoar,

That servant was still speaking, when a second one came running up and saying, “God sent down a fire that killed your sheep and your servants. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.”

Then their tents and possessions are burnt to ashes,

He will send fiery coals and flaming sulphur down on the wicked, and they will drink nothing but a scorching wind.

Moses pointed his walking stick towards the sky, and hailstones started falling everywhere. Thunder roared, and lightning flashed back and forth, striking the ground. This was the worst storm in the history of Egypt.

Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the LORD All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.

The city of Babylon is glorious and powerful, the pride of the nation. But it will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah after I, the Lord, destroyed them.

Long ago the LORD got a place ready for burning the body of the dead king. The place for the fire is deep and wide, the wood is piled high, and the LORD will start the fire by breathing out flaming sulphur.

May that man be like the towns you destroyed without pity. Let him hear shouts of alarm in the morning and battle cries at midday.

And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah.

as bad as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and towns nearby. The towns of Edom will be empty.

I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns, and I will destroy Babylon just as completely. No one will live there again.

My nation was punished worse than the people of Sodom, whose city was destroyed in a flash without the help of human hands.

Israel, I can't let you go. I can't give you up. How could I possibly destroy you as I did the towns of Admah and Zeboiim? I just can't do it. My feelings for you are much too strong.

I destroyed many of you, just as I did the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. You were a burning stick I rescued from the fire. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

I tell you that on the day of judgment the people of Sodom will get off easier than the people of that town!

He will send dust and sandstorms instead of rain, and you will be wiped out.

The LORD will strike your country with diseases and disasters. Your descendants and foreigners from distant countries will see that your land

has become a scorching desert of salt and sulphur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the LORD became angry and destroyed them.

God punished the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and this is a warning to anyone else who wants to sin.

We should also be warned by what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns. Their people became immoral and did all sorts of sexual sins. Then God made an example of them and punished them with eternal fire.

You will have to drink the wine that God gives to everyone who makes him angry. You will feel his mighty anger, and you will be tortured with fire and burning sulphur, while the holy angels and the Lamb look on.




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