Genesis 18:20

They cry of Sodom and Gomorrah. This refers to the exceeding wickedness that prevailed in the cities of the plain (see ch. 13:13). The limit of God’s patience and long-suffering had now been reached. Though the ways of the people of the plain had long been evil, God gave them a period of grace during which He had not left Himself without witnesses. Lot’s righteous life provided them with an example of how they should live, but this had no influence upon them (see 2 Peter 2:7, 8). Their previous dealings with Abraham had placed them in contact with the true God (see Gen. 14:22). But all was to no avail. Their wickedness, which was “very grievous,” literally, “very heavy,” cried to heaven for punishment. The world in our day has nearly reached the same depth of evil (see Luke 17:28-32; 5T 208).