And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the area around Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly evil and sinful before Jehovah.

And He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plants of the ground.

The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and His wrath.

Then people shall say: Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which He had made with them to bring them out of the land of Egypt;

And the anger of Jehovah burned against this land, to bring upon it every curse that is written in this Book.

On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city;

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is esteemed as a forest.

All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).

But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.