Genesis 18:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Jehovah saith, `The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah -- because great; and their sin -- because exceeding grievous:

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  • Gen 19:13 : 13 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.'
  • Isa 3:9 : 9 The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.
  • Gen 4:10 : 10 And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
  • Gen 13:13 : 13 and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
  • Jer 14:7 : 7 Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name's sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.
  • Ezek 16:49-50 : 49 Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. 50 And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.

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  • Gen 18:21-32
    12 verses
    85%

    21I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'

    22and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

    23And Abraham draweth nigh and saith, `Dost Thou also consume righteous with wicked?

    24peradventure there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city; dost Thou also consume, and not bear with the place for the sake of the fifty -- the righteous who `are' in its midst?

    25Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been -- as the righteous so the wicked -- far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

    26And Jehovah saith, `If I find in Sodom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, then have I borne with all the place for their sake.'

    27And Abraham answereth and saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord, and I -- dust and ashes;

    28peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, `I destroy `it' not, if I find there forty and five.'

    29And he addeth again to speak unto Him and saith, `Peradventure there are found there forty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, because of the forty.'

    30And he saith, `Let it not be, I Pray thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: peradventure there are found there thirty?' and He saith, `I do `it' not, if I find there thirty.'

    31And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have willed to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there are found there twenty?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the twenty.'

    32And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy `it', because of the ten.'

  • Gen 13:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    12Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

    13and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

  • Gen 19:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;

    13for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great `before' the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    78%

    28and he looketh on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and seeth, and lo, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.

    29And it cometh to pass, in God's destroying the cities of the circuit, that God remembereth Abraham, and sendeth Lot out of the midst of the overthrow in the overthrowing of the cities in which Lot dwelt.

  • Gen 18:16-17
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    78%

    16And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

    17and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    77%

    24and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

    25and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

  • Deut 29:23
    75%

    23(`with' brimstone and salt is the whole land burnt, it is not sown, nor doth it shoot up, nor doth there go up on it any herb, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overturned in His anger, and in His fury,) --

  • Isa 1:10
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    10Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    74%

    6and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set `them';

  • Luke 17:29
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    29and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

  • Gen 18:19
    73%

    19for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

  • Jer 49:18
    73%

    18As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, And its neighbours, said Jehovah, No one doth dwell there, Nor sojourn in her doth a son of man.

  • Gen 19:18
    73%

    18And Lot saith unto them, `Not `so', I pray thee, my lord;

  • Jer 50:40
    73%

    40As overthrown by God with Sodom, And with Gomorrah, and with its neighbours, An affirmation of Jehovah, none doth dwell there, Nor sojourn in her doth a son of man.

  • Gen 19:4
    72%

    4Before they lie down, the men of the city -- men of Sodom -- have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

  • Matt 10:15
    72%

    15verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Gen 13:10
    72%

    10And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it `is' all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

  • Gen 19:21
    72%

    21And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city `for' which thou hast spoken;

  • Matt 11:24
    72%

    24but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

  • Gen 19:7
    72%

    7and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;

  • Lam 4:6
    72%

    6And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as `in' a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.

  • Gen 6:6
    71%

    6and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

  • Gen 19:1
    71%

    1And two of the messengers come towards Sodom at even, and Lot is sitting at the gate of Sodom, and Lot seeth, and riseth to meet them, and boweth himself -- face to the earth,

  • Jude 1:7
    71%

    7as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

  • 2 Pet 2:8
    71%

    8for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

  • Gen 21:11
    71%

    11And the thing is very wrong in the eyes of Abraham, for his son's sake;