But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Isaiah 1:10 - King James 2000 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear [O Jerusalem] the word of the Lord, you rulers or judges of [another] Sodom! Give ear to the law and the teaching of our God, you people of [another] Gomorrah! American Standard Version (1901) Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. Common English Bible Hear the LORD’s word, you leaders of Sodom. Listen to our God’s teaching, people of Gomorrah! Catholic Public Domain Version Listen to the Word of the Lord, you leaders of the people of Sodom. Listen closely to the law of our God, O people of Gomorrah. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. |
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people who are in Jerusalem.
The look on their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil unto themselves.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the farthest corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say you unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear you the word of the LORD;
And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?
Are you not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.