At that very hour there was a great earthquake, and one-tenth of the city went down. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were stricken with awe, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Then a second angel followed, saying: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen, who made all the nations drink the wine of vengeance due her immorality!"

The great city was broken into three parts; the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of His raging wrath,

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and spoke to me, saying: "Come, I will show you the doom of the noted prostitute who is seated on many waters,

He shouted with a mighty voice: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen! She has become a den for demons, a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird,

Sodom

I tell you, the punishment on the day of judgment will be lighter for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

and if He condemned, by burning them to ashes, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, making them an example to godless people of what was coming to them,

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

Our lord

in her has been found the blood of prophets, saints, and all who have been slaughtered on the earth."

But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.'

He dropped to the ground; then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

and then have fallen by the wayside -- it is impossible, I say, to keep on restoring them to their first repentance, since they continue to crucify the Son of God to their detriment and hold Him up to contempt.

So Jesus, too, in order to purify the people by His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

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and the very day Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.