⁶ For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

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.

¹² I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.

⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

¹⁰ Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

⁹ Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

⁴⁸ By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.

⁴⁹ Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

⁵⁰ They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

¹² And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.

²⁴ But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

²¹ Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.

⁴⁷ And the servant who had knowledge of his lord's desires and was not ready for him and did not do as he was ordered, will be given a great number of blows;