²³ And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

⁹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

⁹ And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

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

²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

¹¹ The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

¹⁶ May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

⁴⁵ And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

² They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.

²⁹ But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

³⁴ For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?

³⁵ It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.

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.

⁸ How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

⁹ I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

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