Fire and brimstone will descend upon it as on Sodom and Gomorrah, and it will be consumed and wither away, with its cruel Ahabs and its painted Jezebels, its subtle Doegs and its lying Balaams, its priests and its judges, and its proud men of blood, its Bible-idolaters and its false prophets, its purple and damask, its gold and its fine linen, and it shall be as Tyre and Sidon, so that none shall know the site thereof.

Wrong, though its title-deeds go back to the days of Sodom, is by nature a thing of yesterday,while the right, of which we became conscious but an hour ago, is more ancient than the stars, and of the essence of Heaven.

She felt herself to be at the head of American talents, and, in the secret recesses of her reason, she determined that, did even the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah menace her native town, as some evil disposed persons had dared to insinuate might one day be the case, here was enough to save it from destruction.

He was the messenger of God urging men to flee as for their lives, like Lot when he escaped from Sodom.

Your kinsman demeaned himself strangely on his coming up, denouncing wrath and woe against the poor citizens, speaking much evil of both Court and City; I am told his civillest name for one was Sodom, and for the other Gomorrah.'

Sodom and Gomorrah swallowed up.

The Lord of Lies, saith Austin, "as he was deceived himself, he seeks to deceive others," the ringleader to all naughtiness, as he did by Eve and Cain, Sodom and Gomorrah, so would he do by all the world.

"Ay, 'tis strange how the law's changed these days, for all the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah; but the word of the Lord's my guide, as ever was, and a blessed refuge for the meek.

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because nothing is to be heard in our Sodom but blaspheming the name of my God, and I not honoured as the instrument of doing any great service.

Of course this Arcadian life could not continue in the very heart of Sodom.

Cursed Sodom's doom for ever fix the tide Where by inglorious chance the valiant died!

"Esther, iv, 11."But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Some, or all of them, may possibly take some other nominative, if not a different person; as, "The Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire.

"But the same day on which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all."Bible cor.

The family of Noah alone saved from the general flood; Abraham chosen from among men to be the sole depositary of the covenant with God; Joshua and Caleb the only two of six hundred thousand Hebrews who saw the Land of Promise; Job the only upright man in the land of Uz; Lot, in Sodom.

Sodom in the suburbs.

We quitted Palhallan as the Lot family quitted Sodom and Gomorrah, but with no lingering tendency to look backward; we cast our eyes unto the hills, and kicked the best pace we could out of our "tattoos," halting for breakfast soon after crossing the hot, white road which runs from Baramula to Srinagar.

But the flood did not cure the evil, nor did the destruction of Sodom, as a warning example.

"I would rather go and command a set of Caffres than remain in this Sodom, which the English fire, in default of Heaven's, must sooner or later destroy," had for a long time past been a common expression of the general's, whose fate was henceforth bound up with that of Pondicherry.

Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, "Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?"

They were ordered to go without money, scrip or cloak, but to live on religious alms; and it is added,that if any house or city does not receive them, it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for it.

But joy can beautify sand and Sodom.

She chews the chambeli, and hungry Baby, struggling for the "fount," is insulted with apples of Sodom; she swallows a portion of dhallapee, and he is regaled as with the melting melons of Ceylon.

As we trace this stock through the ages, apples of Sodom, no doubt, will be found in abundance, but now and then it flowers into heroic manhood and lovely womanhood.

Much search among the rocks was finally rewarded by the discovery of some dates, which were particularly welcome, as the lovers had been bitterly deluded by the sight of some apples of Sodom.