And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold, a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up; it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

"The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

And a second [one] said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever!"

But safety shall fail them, for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

They saw, and so they wondered; they were troubled, they were moved.

Trembling took hold of them; there were the pangs as of a woman in travail.

All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands.

And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life;

And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, says the Lord.

And the kings of the earth, and the magnates and the high-ranking military men, and the rich and the mighty, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the crags of the mountains.

For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand?"