Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Tzo`ar.
Genesis 19:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there.* Therefore the name of the city was called Tzo`ar. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Make haste and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar [little]. American Standard Version (1901) Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. Common English Bible Hurry! Escape to it! I can’t do anything until you get there.” That is why the name of the city is Zoar. Catholic Public Domain Version Hurry and be saved there. For I cannot do anything until you enter there." For this reason, the name of that city is called Zoar. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor. |
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Tzo`ar.
that they made war with Bera, king of Sedom, and with Birsha, king of `Amorah, Shin'av, king of Admah, and Shem'ever, king of Tzevoyim, and the king of Bela (the same is Tzo`ar).
He said to him, *Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.*
My heart cries out for Mo'av! Her Nazirites flee to Tzo`ar, to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah; for they go up by the ascent of Luchit with weeping; for in the way of Choronayim, they raise up a cry of destruction.
Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
From the cry of Cheshbon even to El`aleh, even to Yahatz have they uttered their voice, from Tzo`ar even to Choronayim, to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.
He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Yericho the city of palm trees, to Tzo`ar.
let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;