Genesis 19:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    because we are about to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    for we{H587} will destroy{H7843} this place,{H4725} because the cry of them{H6818} is waxed{H1431} great{H854} before{H6440} Jehovah;{H3068} and Jehovah{H3068} hath sent{H7971} us to destroy{H7843} it.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For we{H587} will destroy{H7843}{(H8688)}{H853} this place{H4725}, because the cry of them{H6818} is waxen great{H1431}{(H8804)} before{H854} the face{H6440} of the LORD{H3068}; and the LORD{H3068} hath sent{H7971}{(H8762)} us to destroy{H7843}{(H8763)} it.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    for we must destroy this place because the crye of the is great before the LORde. Wherfore he hath sent vs to destroy it.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    for we must destroye this place, because the crye of them is greate before the LORDE, which hath sent vs to destroye them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For we will destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the Lorde, and the Lord hath sent vs to destroy it.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For we wyl destroy this place, because the crye of them is great before the face of God: for the Lorde hath sent vs to destroy it.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great `before' the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah: and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:20 : 20 And the LORD said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grievous,
  • 1 Chr 21:15-16 : 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD looked, and relented of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed, It is enough, stay your hand now. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between the earth and the heavens, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
  • Ps 11:5-6 : 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. 6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given to him.
  • Isa 36:10 : 10 Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
  • Ezek 9:5-6 : 5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity: 6 Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.
  • Matt 13:41-42 : 41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 13:49-50 : 49 This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous. 50 And throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Rom 3:8-9 : 8 And why not say, (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say,) 'Let us do evil that good may come'? Their condemnation is just. 9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
  • Rev 16:1-9 : 1 And I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth. 2 And the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth; and there came a foul and painful sore upon the men who had the mark of the beast, and upon those who worshiped his image. 3 And the second angel poured out his bowl upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the third angel poured out his bowl upon the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, who are, and were, and shall be, because you have judged thus. 6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. 7 And I heard another from the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments. 8 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory. 10 And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, 11 and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds. 12 And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 19:4-12
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    85%

    4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

    5 And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

    6 And Lot went out to them at the door, and shut the door after him.

    7 And said, I pray you, brothers, do not do so wickedly.

    8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me, I pray you, bring them to you, and do to them as seems good in your eyes: only do nothing to these men; for they have come under the shadow of my roof.

    9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one came here to stay, and he will act as a judge: now we will deal worse with you than with them. And they pressed hard against Lot, and came near to break the door.

    10 But the men reached out their hands, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

    11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they tired themselves trying to find the door.

    12 And the men said to Lot, Do you have anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of this place.

  • Gen 19:14-18
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    14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Get up, get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one who mocked.

    15 And when the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

    16 And while he lingered, the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

    17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them out, that he said, Escape for your life; do not look behind you, nor stay anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.

    18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my Lord.

  • Gen 18:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20 And the LORD said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grievous,

    21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to me; and if not, I will know.

  • Luke 17:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

    29 But on the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 19:28-31
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    28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

    29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the upheaval, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

    30 And Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters were with him, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar: and he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.

    31 And the firstborn said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us in the manner of all the earth.

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.

    25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

  • Gen 13:12-13
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    76%

    12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23 And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

  • Gen 19:1-2
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    1 And two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the ground.

    2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and spend the night, and wash your feet, and you shall rise early and go on your way. And they said, No; but we will stay in the street all night.

  • Gen 13:10
    73%

    10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.

  • Jer 50:40
    73%

    40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD; so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live there.

  • 2 Pet 2:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

    7 And delivered righteous Lot, who was distressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked:

  • Jer 49:18
    72%

    18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, nor shall a son of man reside in it.

  • Gen 19:22
    71%

    22 Hurry, escape there; for I cannot do anything until you arrive there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

  • Judg 19:22
    71%

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."

  • Gen 18:23
    70%

    23 And Abraham drew near and said, Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

  • Gen 14:12
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    12 And they took Lot, Abram's nephew, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • Judg 20:9
    70%

    9 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

  • Jude 1:7
    70%

    7 As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

  • Isa 13:19
    70%

    19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Deut 3:6
    70%

    6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

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