Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
haughty—puffed up with prosperity.
abomination before me—"sinners before the Lord" (Genesis 13:13); said of those whose sin is so heinous as to cry out to God for immediate judgments; presumptuous sins, daring God to the face (Genesis 18:20; Genesis 19:5).
I took them away— (Genesis 19:24).
as I saw good—rather, "according to what I saw"; referring to Genesis 18:21, where God says, "I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto Me."
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