Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

又好像罗得的日子；人又吃又喝，又买又卖，又耕种又盖造。

同样，就像在罗得的日子，人又吃又喝，又买又卖，又耕种又建造，

同样，就像在罗得的日子，人又吃又喝，又买又卖，又耕种又建造，

又像罗得的时代，人们吃喝、做买卖、耕地、盖房。

在罗得的时代也是这样，人们吃喝买卖，耕种建造，

同样，就像在罗得的那些日子里发生的那样：人们继续吃喝、买卖、耕种、建造，

又好像羅得的日子；人又吃又喝，又買又賣，又耕種又蓋造。

同樣，就像在羅得的日子，人又吃又喝，又買又賣，又耕種又建造，

同樣，就像在羅得的日子，人又吃又喝，又買又賣，又耕種又建造，

又像羅得的時代，人們吃喝、做買賣、耕地、蓋房。

在羅得的時代也是這樣，人們吃喝買賣，耕種建造，

又好像在羅得的日子一樣；人喫喝買賣，栽種建造；

同樣，就像在羅得的那些日子裡發生的那樣：人們繼續吃喝、買賣、耕種、建造，

又如羅得之時、人食飲貿易、樹藝建造、

如羅得時、其人飲食貿易、樹蓺搆造、

又如羅得時、人皆飲食、貿易、栽種、建造、

又如羅德之日、人方飲食貿易、樹藝建築、晏如也。

“ It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

“ It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking. They were buying and selling. They were planting and building.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot— they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

“ And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business— eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building—

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, and they were building;

Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth- eaten.Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

“‘ See here– this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.He said,“ Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“ No,” they replied,“ we’ll spend the night in the town square.”But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.They shouted to Lot,“ Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him.He said,“ No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly!Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”“ Out of our way!” they cried, and“ This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.Then the two visitors said to Lot,“ Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this placebecause 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.”Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“ Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“ Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.When they had brought them outside, they said,“ Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”But Lot said to them,“ No, please, Lord!Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”“ Very well,” he replied,“ I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”( This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

( Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)

So the LORD said,“ The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatantthat I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”