Genesis 18:20
Good News Translation
Then the LORD said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the LORD said, “How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin!

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said, "Abraham, I have heard that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah are doing all kinds of evil things.

New American Bible
So the LORD said: The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.

the cry.

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Genesis 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Jeremiah 14:7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

sin.

Genesis 13:13 And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Context
Abraham Begs for Sodom
19For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him. 20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.21I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.…
Cross References
Genesis 13:13
And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

Genesis 19:4
But before they went to bed, the men of the city beset the house, both young and old, all the people together.

Genesis 19:13
For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.

Jeremiah 23:14
And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

Ezekiel 16:46
And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.

Ezekiel 16:49
Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.

Ezekiel 16:50
And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.

Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.

Jonah 1:2
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Genesis 18:19
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