When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”
The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the c
It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate;
Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like s