Lamentations 4:6

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The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, with no hand turned to help her.

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  • Gen 19:25 : 25 Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.
  • Luke 10:12 : 12 I tell you, on that day it will be more bearable for Sodom than for that town.
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 That servant who knew his master’s will and did not prepare or act according to his will, will be beaten with many blows.
  • Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
  • Lam 4:9 : 9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.
  • Ezek 16:48-50 : 48 As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of food, and abundant ease were hers and her daughters', but they did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They became haughty and committed abominations before me; therefore, I removed them as I saw fit.
  • Dan 9:12 : 12 He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and our rulers who governed us, bringing on us a great disaster. Nothing like it has ever been done under the entire heaven as what has been done in Jerusalem.
  • Matt 11:23-24 : 23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will be brought down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. 24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
  • Matt 24:21 : 21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, and never will happen again.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 6:26
    78%

    26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

  • Lam 4:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    11The LORD has exhausted His wrath and poured out His fierce anger; He kindled a fire in Zion, consuming its foundations.

  • Amos 4:11
    75%

    11I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 3:9
    75%

    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Ezek 16:48-49
    2 verses
    75%

    48As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters have done.

    49Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of food, and abundant ease were hers and her daughters', but they did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

  • Isa 13:19
    75%

    19Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

  • Lam 4:22
    75%

    22The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; He will keep you in exile no longer. But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.

  • Jer 49:18
    75%

    18As with the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, says the LORD, no one will live there; no human being will stay in it.

  • Isa 1:10
    74%

    10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

  • Jer 50:40
    74%

    40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors, declares the LORD, no one will live there, and no human being will dwell in it.

  • Isa 22:4
    74%

    4Therefore I said, 'Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of my people.'

  • Lam 1:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

  • Jer 14:17
    73%

    17You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'

  • Mic 2:9
    73%

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Mic 1:9
    73%

    9For her wound is incurable; it has even reached Judah. It has reached the gates of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.

  • Lam 1:5
    73%

    5Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies prosper because the LORD has afflicted her for her many sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

  • Isa 1:7
    73%

    7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • Jer 44:6
    73%

    6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • Lam 4:5
    73%

    5Those who once feasted on delicacies now lie desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in fine crimson embrace ash heaps.

  • Ezek 16:56-57
    2 verses
    73%

    56You did not even mention your sister Sodom during the days of your pride,

    57before your own wickedness was exposed, like the time you were taunted by the daughters of Aram and all her neighbors, and by the daughters of the Philistines, who looked down on you from every side.

  • Lam 1:12
    73%

    12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

  • Lam 3:48
    73%

    48Streams of water run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Lam 2:11
    72%

    11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

  • Ezek 16:46
    72%

    46Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.

  • Jer 4:18
    72%

    18Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Ezek 5:6
    72%

    6But she has rebelled against My rules more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the surrounding countries. They have rejected My judgments and have not walked in My statutes.

  • Ezek 9:9
    72%

    9He said to me, 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of injustice. They say, "The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see."'

  • Deut 29:23
    72%

    23All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'

  • Lam 5:11
    72%

    11Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah.

  • Jer 5:29
    72%

    29Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

  • Lam 1:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

    18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, all you peoples; look at my suffering. My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Jer 8:21
    72%

    21Since my people are crushed, I am crushed; I mourn, and horror grips me.

  • Lam 2:2
    72%

    2The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. In his wrath, he has torn down the fortresses of the daughter of Judah, bringing them down to the ground. He has defiled her kingdom and its rulers.

  • Gen 18:20
    72%

    20Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave.

  • Jer 5:9
    72%

    9Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not take vengeance on a nation like this?

  • Mic 6:13
    72%

    13Therefore, I have begun to strike you and make you desolate because of your sins.

  • Jer 23:14
    72%

    14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from their wickedness. They have all become to Me like Sodom, and the inhabitants like Gomorrah.

  • Lam 2:8
    71%

    8The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

  • Matt 11:24
    71%

    24But I tell you that it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.

  • Lam 4:7
    71%

    7Her nobles were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their appearance like sapphires.

  • Jer 4:31
    71%

    31I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'

  • Isa 51:19
    71%

    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • Jer 4:20
    71%

    20Disaster upon disaster is announced, for the whole land is devastated. Suddenly, my tents are ruined, my curtains in a moment.

  • Zeph 1:17
    71%

    17I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.