So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.
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TSK · Genesis 8:1
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God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
The angel of the LORD said to him,“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
Please remember me for this, O my God, and do not wipe out the kindness that I have done for the temple of my God and for its services!
Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
A song of ascents. O LORD, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,
Remember, O LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said,“Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”
who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’
The LORD confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob:“I swear I will never forget all you have done!
LORD, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, LORD, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!
For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope
because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.