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 Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.

As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters.

And you, Capernaum, who are exalted to the heaven, shall be brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which have been done in you 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 did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

The punishment

Better are the ones slain by the sword than the ones slain by hunger; those who pine away, pierced because the fruits of my fields failed.

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 has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under all the heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.

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