Lamentations 4:6

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Summary

For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

Punishment of the iniquity of the daughter

Luke 12:47

The punishment

Bible References

Punishment of the iniquity of the daughter

Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom; we should have been like Gomorrah.

As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

And that servant who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The punishment

They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

And he hath confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven it hath not been done as it hath been done upon Jerusalem.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.