Genesis 19:19
since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live, —but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
18And Lot said to them, I pray, Lord,
Cross References
Genesis 6:8But Noe found grace before the Lord God.
Deuteronomy 31:17And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.
1 Kings 9:9And men shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them. Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharao out of the city of David into his house which he built for himself in those days.
Psalms 40:1Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. 1
Psalms 103:1Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you have clothed yourself with praise and honor: 1
Psalms 116:1+ 116:1 Rom 15:11 Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:16-24
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind… Read the whole commentary →