Lamentations 4:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Genesis 19:24

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

Genesis 19:25

He destroyed those cities and everyone who lived in them, as well as their land and the trees and grass that grew there.

Isaiah 24:2

including ordinary people and priests, slaves and slave owners, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, the rich and the poor.

Jeremiah 20:16

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.

Jeremiah 23:14

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.

Lamentations 4:9

Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.

Daniel 8:25

His deceitful lies will make him so successful, that he will think he is really great. Suddenly he will kill many people, and he will even attack God, the Supreme Ruler. But God will crush him!

Daniel 9:12

You warned us and our leaders that Jerusalem would suffer the worst disaster in human history, and you did exactly as you had threatened.

Matthew 24:21

This will be the worst time of suffering since the beginning of the world, and nothing this terrible will ever happen again.

Luke 10:12

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

Luke 12:47

If servants are not ready or willing to do what their master wants them to do, they will be beaten hard.