²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

¹² Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

¹⁵ In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

¹⁹ He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

²⁰ At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

²¹ Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.

²⁴ For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

¹¹ And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.