Joshua 8:20
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When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.
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It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”