Genesis 18:20

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Summary

Genesis 18:20

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

The cry

Sin

Genesis 13:13

General references

Genesis 3:9

Luke 17:28

Bible References

The cry

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

The expression of their faces bears witness against them,

And they display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even conceal it.
Woe to them!
For they have brought evil on themselves.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

“Although our iniquities testify against us,
O Lord, act for Your name’s sake!
Truly our apostasies have been many,
We have sinned against You.

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Sin

Now the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the Lord.

General references

Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;