So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Proverbs 21:12 - English Standard Version 2016 The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: But God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The [uncompromisingly] righteous man considers well the house of the wicked–how the wicked are cast down to ruin. American Standard Version (1901) The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin. Common English Bible The righteous one observes the house of the wicked, turning the wicked toward trouble. Catholic Public Domain Version The just thinks carefully about the house of the impious, so that he may draw the impious away from evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil. |
So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall.
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.