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29 And as Isaiah predicted,

“If the Lord of hosts had not left descendants to us,
    we would have fared like Sodom
    and been made like Gomorrah.”(A)

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29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty(A)
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:29 Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us a few survivors,
we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.(A)

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

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Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.(A)

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Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(A) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(B) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(C)

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11 I overthrew some of you
    as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me,
            says the Lord.(A)

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11 “I overthrew some of you
    as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.(A)
You were like a burning stick(B) snatched from the fire,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(C)

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19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
    the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
    when God overthrew them.(A)

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19 Babylon,(A) the jewel of kingdoms,(B)
    the pride and glory(C) of the Babylonians,[a]
will be overthrown(D) by God
    like Sodom and Gomorrah.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:19 Or Chaldeans

40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says the Lord, so no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in her.(A)

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40 As I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah(A)
    along with their neighboring towns,”
declares the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell in it.(B)

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18 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors were overthrown, says the Lord, no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.(A)

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18 As Sodom(A) and Gomorrah(B) were overthrown,
    along with their neighboring towns,”
says the Lord,
“so no one will live there;
    no people will dwell(C) in it.

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Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,[a] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.(A)

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  1. 7 Gk went after other flesh

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah(A) and the surrounding towns(B) gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.(C)

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and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction[a] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[b]

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  1. 2.6 Other ancient authorities lack to destruction
  2. 2.6 Other ancient authorities read an example to those who were to be ungodly

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(A) and made them an example(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(C)

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23 all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger(A)

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23 The whole land will be a burning waste(A) of salt(B) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,(C) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.(D)

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24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven,(A) 25 and he overthrew those cities and all the plain and all the inhabitants of the cities and what grew on the ground.(B)

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24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.(C) 25 Thus he overthrew those cities(D) and the entire plain,(E) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.(F)

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And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures,
    meadows for shepherds,
    and folds for flocks.(A)

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The land by the sea will become pastures
    having wells for shepherds
    and pens for flocks.(A)

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The punishment of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,(A)
which was overthrown in a moment
    without a hand turned to help her.

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