Lamentations 4:6
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6 For the chastisement of my people has been greater
than the punishment of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
though no hand was laid on it.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 4.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 19:25
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25 and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground.(A)
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Luke 10:12
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12 I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.(A)
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Luke 12:47
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47 That slave who knew what his master wanted but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.(A)
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Matthew 24:21
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21 For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.(A)
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Matthew 11:23-24
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23 And you, Capernaum,
will you be exalted to heaven?
No, you will be brought down to Hades.
“For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.(A) 24 But I tell you that on the day of judgment it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for you.”(B)
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Daniel 9:12
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12 He has confirmed his words that he spoke against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a calamity so great that what has been done against Jerusalem has never before been done under the whole heaven.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:48-50
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48 As I live, says the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.(A) 49 This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.(B) 50 They were haughty and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.(C)
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Lamentations 4:9
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9 Happier were those pierced by the sword
than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
of the produce of the field.(A)
Isaiah 1:9-10
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9 If the Lord of hosts
had not left us a few survivors,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.(A)
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the teaching of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!(B)
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