Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The LORD said, *Because the cry of Sedom and `Amorah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord said, Because the shriek [of the sins] of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is exceedingly grievous, American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; Common English Bible Then the LORD said, “The cries of injustice from Sodom and Gomorrah are countless, and their sin is very serious! Catholic Public Domain Version And so the Lord said, "The outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah has been multiplied, and their sin has become exceedingly grievous. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. |
Now the men of Sedom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.*
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sedom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
The LORD said, *What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sedom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Yisra'el, and the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
In the prophets of Yerushalayim also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sedom, and the inhabitants of it as `Amorah.
Your elder sister is Shomron, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sedom and her daughters.
Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.*
*Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.*
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.