⁵⁹ When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

⁴⁰ Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

²¹ I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

²³ And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

⁴⁴ But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.

¹⁹ And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

⁴ The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

² The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

³ They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

⁴ Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

⁵ Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

⁷ The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

⁸ And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.