and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.