But Jesus replied, “I tell you that if they keep quiet then the stones will shout!”
Let the heavens sing for joy, let the earth be happy, let the sea and everything in it shout with praise!
You will live happily, taught the ways of peace. Mountains and hills will celebrate, singing beside you; and all the trees will clap their hands!
Even the stones in the wall cry out in condemnation, and the wooden rafters join in too.
From noon until three o'clock darkness covered the whole country.
and don't presume to say proudly to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children of Abraham from these stones.
But as he got closer, he saw the city and wept over it.
God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to total destruction, burning them to ash, as an example of what will happen to those who live evil lives.