Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
KJV
Dixit itaque Dominus : Clamor Sodomorum et Gomorrhæ multiplicatus est, et peccatum eorum aggravatum est nimis.
Vulgate
εἶπεν δὲ Κύριος Κραυγὴ Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόρρας πεπλήθυνται, καὶ αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῶν μεγάλαι σφόδρα.
LXX
And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה זַעֲקַ֛ת סְדֹ֥ם וַ/עֲמֹרָ֖ה כִּי רָ֑בָּה וְ/חַ֨טָּאתָ֔/ם כִּ֥י כָבְדָ֖ה מְאֹֽד
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
חַטָּ֖את
cht't
noun · 298×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
noun · 19×
מְאֹֽד
m'd
noun · 297×
נִכְבָּ֔ד
nkbd
verb · 115×
סְדֹ֣ם
sdm
proper_noun · 39×
עֲמֹרָ֔ה
'mrh
proper_noun · 19×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1867The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel,139 The sin of the Sodomites,140 The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt,141 The cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan,142 injustice to the wage earner.143
2. And ye indeed say that you know even His substance, but that the Son not even the day, the Son, who is always in the bosom of the Father; and yet His substance is much greater than the days, even infinitely greater. How then, while assigning to yourselves the greater things, do you not allow even the less to the Son, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.…
Cross-references
- Exod 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage
- Ezek 16:49 — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezek 16:50 — And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
- Gen 3:9 — And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
- Gen 4:10 — And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
- Gen 6:5 — And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Gen 13:13 — But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
- Gen 19:4 — But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
- Gen 19:13 — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
- Gen 19:13 — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
- Isa 3:9 — The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- Isa 3:9 — The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
- Jas 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth
- Jer 23:14 — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they ar
- Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
- Joel 3:13 — Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
- Jonah 1:2 — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Jude 1:7 — Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of ete
- Luke 17:28 — Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
- Rev 18:5 — For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.