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

If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

{As surely as I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, 'surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not [do] as you and your daughters did.

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.

I tell you that it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.

The punishment

Happier were [the] victims of [the] sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.

And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.

And [so] he [has] carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us great calamity which was not done under all [of] heaven as it was done in Jerusalem.

For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen.