Lamentations 4:6

Good News Translation

My people have been punished even more than the inhabitants of Sodom, which met a sudden downfall at the hands of God.

Cross References

Genesis 19:24

Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 19:25

and destroyed them and the whole valley, along with all the people there and everything that grew on the land.

Isaiah 24:2

Everyone will meet the same fate—the priests and the people, slaves and masters, buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, rich and poor.

Jeremiah 20:16

May he be like those cities that the Lord destroyed without mercy. May he hear cries of pain in the morning and the battle alarm at noon,

Jeremiah 23:14

But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Lamentations 4:9

Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

Daniel 8:25

Because he is cunning, he will succeed in his deceitful ways. He will be proud of himself and destroy many people without warning. He will even defy the greatest King of all, but he will be destroyed without the use of any human power.

Daniel 9:12

You did what you said you would do to us and our rulers. You punished Jerusalem more severely than any other city on earth,

Matthew 24:21

For the trouble at that time will be far more terrible than any there has ever been, from the beginning of the world to this very day. Nor will there ever be anything like it again.

Luke 10:12

I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!

Luke 12:47

“The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping.