If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 50:40 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns – this is the Lord’s declaration – so no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily as a temporary resident. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the Lord, so no man shall dwell there; neither shall any son of man live there temporarily. [Jer. 49:18.] American Standard Version (1901) As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. Common English Bible Just as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, declares the LORD, so no one will live in Babylon or settle there again. Catholic Public Domain Version Just as the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighboring towns, says the Lord, no man will live there, and a son of man will not tend it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha and their neighbour cities, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, neither shall the son of man inhabit it. |
If the Lord of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbours,’ says the Lord, ‘no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.
No one will be able to retrieve a cornerstone or a foundation stone from you, because you will become desolate for ever. This is the Lord’s declaration.
I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to me – This is the Lord’s declaration.
Therefore, as I live – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel – Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah: a place overgrown with weeds, a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the remainder of my nation will dispossess them.
And just as Isaiah predicted: If the Lord of Armies had not left us offspring, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have been made like Gomorrah. ,
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulphur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.
and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Their dead bodies , will lie in the main street of the great city, which figuratively is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.