50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-59)The prophet here further shows Jerusalem her abominations, by comparing her with those places that had gone before her, and showing that she was worse than any of them, and therefore should, like them, be utterly and irreparably ruined. We are all apt to judge of ourselves by comparison, and to imagine that we are sufficiently good if we are but as good as such and such, who are thought passable;…
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