Genesis 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.
KJV
delebimus enim locum istum, eo quod increverit clamor eorum coram Domino, qui misit nos ut perdamus illos.
Vulgate
ὅτι ἀπόλλυμεν ἡμεῖς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον, ὅτι ὑψώθη ἡ κραυγὴ αὐτῶν ἐναντίον Κυρίου, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἡμᾶς Κύριος ἐκτρίψαι αὐτήν.
LXX
for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.
ASV
כִּֽי מַשְׁחִתִ֣ים אֲנַ֔חְנוּ אֶת הַ/מָּק֖וֹם הַ/זֶּ֑ה כִּֽי גָֽדְלָ֤ה צַעֲקָתָ/ם֙ אֶת פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַ/יְשַׁלְּחֵ֥/נוּ יְהוָ֖ה לְ/שַׁחֲתָֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
2 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
Cross-references
- Acts 12:23 — And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
- Gen 18:20 — And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
- Gen 18:20 — And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
- Gen 38:7 — And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
- 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
- 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
- Matt 13:41 — The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
- Matt 13:49 — So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
- Rev 16:1 — And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
- Rom 3:8 — And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.