Genesis 19:13
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New International Version (©2011)
because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

New Living Translation (©2007)
For we are about to destroy this city completely. The outcry against this place is so great it has reached the LORD, and he has sent us to destroy it."

English Standard Version (©2001)
For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the LORD that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the LORD, that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

International Standard Version (©2012)
because we're going to destroy it. The LORD knows how their behavior stinks, so he sent us here to destroy it!"

NET Bible (©2006)
because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
because we're going to destroy this place. The complaints to the LORD against its people are so loud that the LORD has sent us to destroy it."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For we will destroy this place, because the cry against them has become great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

American King James Version
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.

American Standard Version
for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah: and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

Darby Bible Translation
For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

English Revised Version
for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Webster's Bible Translation
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them has become great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

World English Bible
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

Young's Literal Translation
for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great before the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-29 Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile. Care was therefore taken for saving Lot and his family. Lot lingered; he trifled. Thus many who are under convictions about their spiritual state, and the necessity of a change, defer that needful work. The salvation of the most righteous men is of God's mercy, not by their own merit. We are saved by grace. God's power also must be acknowledged in bringing souls out of a sinful state If God had not been merciful to us, our lingering had been our ruin. Lot must flee for his life. He must not hanker after Sodom. Such commands as these are given to those who, through grace, are delivered out of a sinful state and condition. Return not to sin and Satan. Rest not in self and the world. Reach toward Christ and heaven, for that is escaping to the mountain, short of which we must not stop. Concerning this destruction, observe that it is a revelation of the wrath of God against sin and sinners of all ages. Let us learn from hence the evil of sin, and its hurtful nature; it leads to ruin.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For we will destroy this place,.... Or "we are destroying it" (p), are about to do it, and will quickly and immediately do it:

because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; the cry of the sins of the inhabitants of it, which were many, and openly, and daringly committed, and reached to heaven, and called for immediate vengeance and punishment:

and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it; by which they discovered themselves to be angels, and what their business was, to destroy Sodom; and which confutes the notion of the Jews, that they were sent on different errands; whereas it is clear from hence, these two were sent to do one and the same thing; See Gill on Genesis 18:2.

(p) "disperdentes nos", Montanus; "nos perdituri mox sumus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Drusius, Schmidt.

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Lot Flees to Zoar
12And the men said to Lot, Have you here any besides? son in law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whatever you have in the city, bring them out of this place: 13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it. 14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons in law. …

Genesis 18:20 Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
Genesis 19:12 The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here--sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.
1 Chronicles 21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Jeremiah 44:22 When the LORD could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.