Ezekiel 16:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Haughty; insufferably arrogant in their deportment towards good men, they vexed the soul of righteous Lot; and towards the angels, whom they assaulted in Lot's house; and towards God himself, as both in this verse, and in Genesis 13:13. Committed; worked, as if it were their trade. Abomination; the whole of these men's life was as one continued act of the highest wickedness. Before me; either against God, or openly and publicly, as Isaiah 3:9. I took them away; destroyed their state, cities, people, and country, turned them into a lake of dead and deadly water, or rather bitumen and sulphur. As I saw good; in a way none could have suspected, and, for aught I know, none ever saw before or since. If you inquire how Jerusalem's sins were greater than Sodom s, I would answer, if not in the things done, yet in the aggravating circumstances of them; against redeeming mercy, against the law of God, which forbade what they did, and told them what they should do, against admonitions by the mouth of prophets, and against examples of God's vengeance on Sodom and the cities of the plain.