At that moment there was a great earthquake, and one tenth of the city was destroyed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were filled with awe, and acknowledged the glory of the God of heaven.

A second angel followed, saying, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen, who made all the heathen drink the wine of the passion of her immorality!"

The great city broke into three pieces, the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of his fierce anger.

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and spoke to me. "Come," he said, "I will show you the doom of the great idolatress who is seated on many waters,

He cried out with a mighty voice, "She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become the haunt of demons, and a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,

Sodom

I tell you, the land of Sodom and Gomorrah will fare better on the Day of Judgment than that town.

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and overwhelmed them with ashes, as a warning to ungodly men of what was to come,

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in immorality and unnatural vice stand as a warning, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Our lord

and in you was found the blood of prophets, God's people, and all who have been slaughtered on the earth."

But I must go on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem.'

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

and yet have fallen back, for they crucify the Son of God on their own account, and hold him up to contempt.

And so Jesus too, in order to purify the people by his blood, suffered death outside the city gate.

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but the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.