2 Esdras 2:9

9 whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That is what I will do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty."

2 Esdras 2:9 In-Context

7 Let them be scattered among the nations; let their names be blotted out from the earth, because they have despised my covenant.

8 "Woe to you, Assyria, who conceal the unrighteous within you! O wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah,

9 whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That is what I will do to those who have not listened to me, says the Lord Almighty."

10 Thus says the Lord to Ezra: "Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I was going to give to Israel.

11 Moreover, I will take back to myself their glory, and will give to these others the everlasting habitations, which I had prepared for Israel.

Footnotes

• [a]. Other ancient authorities read [Gomorrah, whose land descends to hell]