Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;

So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am I not jesting?

Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.

“Against whom do you jest?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion,
Offspring of deceit,

And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.

Nevertheless, as for the soothsaying, they shall hold it but for vanity; even as though a jest were told them. Yea and they themselves remember their wickedness, so that by right they must be taken and won.