And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

They also took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw [them,] he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.

I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.

Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."

and delivered righteous Lot, [who was] oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

(for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented [his] righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing [their] lawless deeds) --