31 The cities alluded to are Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of the Jordan plain which had become proverbial for their wickedness and for the destruction that the Lord brought on them because of it. See Isa 1:9–10; 13:19; Jer 23:14; 49:18.

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Let that man be like the cities

that the Lord overthrew without pity;

let him hear a cry in the morning

and an alarm at noon,

May that man be like the towns

the Lord overthrew without pity.

May he hear wailing in the morning,

a battle cry at noon.

Let that man be like the cities

the Lord demolished without compassion.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

and a war cry at noontime

Let him be destroyed like the cities of old

that the Lord overthrew without mercy.

Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,

And let that man be like the cities

that Yahweh demolished without regret,

and let him hear a cry for help in the morning,

and an alarm at the time of noon.

And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not:

And let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

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