²³ All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.^(A)

⁴⁹ Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food,^(A) and comfortable security, but didn’t support^[a] the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ They were haughty and did detestable acts before me, so I removed them when I saw this.^[b](B)

²⁸ It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot:^(A) People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building. ²⁹ But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed^(B) them all.

⁶ and if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah^(A) to ashes and condemned them to extinction,^[a] making them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;^{(B) 7} and if he rescued righteous Lot,^(C) distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral ⁸ (for as that righteous man lived among them day by day, his righteous soul was tormented by the lawless deeds he saw and heard^(D))—

⁷ Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah^(A) and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions,^[a] and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.^(B)