For we will destroy this place,.... Or "we are destroying it" p, are about to do it, and will quickly and immediately do it:
because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; the cry of the sins of the inhabitants of it, which were many, and openly, and daringly committed, and reached to heaven, and called for immediate vengeance and punishment:
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it; by which they discovered themselves to be angels, and what their business was, to destroy Sodom; and which confutes the notion of the Jews, that they were sent on different errands; whereas it is clear from hence, these two were sent to do one and the same thing; Genesis 18:2.
p משחתים אנחנו "disperdentes nos", Montanus; "nos perdituri mox sumus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Drusius, Schmidt.