How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefo
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like th
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your chil
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange fle
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious.
But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with A
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoa
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the ange
Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also cruc
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the
and cry out at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her. “What city was ever like this great city?”
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on y
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.