²⁰ `Saying', Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked

¹⁶ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

²⁹ but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:

³⁰ after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

¹ Now there were some present at that very season who told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

² And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they have suffered these things?

³ I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

⁴ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown `by man' shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

¹⁸ That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

¹⁹ For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.

⁵ For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

³ Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

⁴ If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who `ever' perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

²⁴ Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;