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23 (A)they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

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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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32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
    and their clusters are bitter.(A)

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32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom(A)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,(B)
    and their clusters with bitterness.(C)

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If the Lord of hosts[a] had not
    left us a small remnant,
We would have become as Sodom,
    would have resembled Gomorrah.(A)

10 [b]Hear the word of the Lord,
    princes of Sodom!
Listen to the instruction of our God,
    people of Gomorrah!

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Footnotes

  1. 1:9 Lord of hosts: God, who is the Creator and Ruler of the armies of Israel, the angels, stars, etc.
  2. 1:10–17 A powerful indictment of the religious hypocrisy of rulers and others who neglect just judgment and oppress the weaker members, yet believe they can please God with sacrifices and other external forms of worship. The long list of observances suggests the Lord’s tedium with such attempts. Sodom…Gomorrah: the names are picked up from v. 9, but now to emphasize their wickedness rather than the good fortune of escaping total destruction.

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

10 Hear the word of the Lord,(C)
    you rulers of Sodom;(D)
listen to the instruction(E) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!(F)

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