#Lot's Wife

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

This 15th century illustration of the destruction of Sodom is going to end me.

Lot's wife is just vibing.

#sodom and gomorrah #lot's wife #medieval art

[abellinthecupboard]

Lot’s Wife

They say I looked back out of curiosity. But I could have had other reasons. I looked back mourning my silver bowl. Carelessly, while tying my sandal strap. So I wouldn't have to keep staring at the righteous nape of my husband Lot's neck. From the sudden conviction that if I dropped dead he wouldn't so much as hesitate. From the disobedience of the meek. Checking for pursuers. Struck by the silence, hoping God had changed his mind. Our two daughters were already vanishing over the hilltop. I felt age within me. Distance. The futility of wandering. Torpor. I looked back setting my bundle down. I looked back not knowing where to set my foot. Serpents appeared on my path, spiders, field mice, baby vultures. They were neither good nor evil now--every living thing was simply creeping or hopping along in the mass panic. I looked back in desolation. In shame because we had stolen away. Wanting to cry out, to go home. Or only when a sudden gust of wind unbound my hair and lifted up my robe. It seemed to me that they were watching from the walls of Sodom and bursting into thunderous laughter again and again. I looked back in anger. To savor their terrible fate. I looked back for all the reasons given above. I looked back involuntarily. It was only a rock that turned underfoot, growling at me. It was a sudden crack that stopped me in my tracks. A hamster on its hind paws tottered on the edge. It was then we both glanced back. No, no. I ran on, I crept, I flew upward until darkness fell from the heavens and with it scorching gravel and dead birds. I couldn't breathe and spun around and around. Anyone who saw me must have thought I was dancing. It's not inconceivable that my eyes were open. It's possible I fell facing the city.

— Wisława Szymborska, transl. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak

#Wisława Szymborska #Wislawa Szymborska #Lot's Wife #poetry #literature #bible #old testament

[contremineur]

Sometime soon after the embers cooled, after dust clouds settled, after the last strings of smoke, hoisted by desert breezes, cleared the air, they must have come, people of those three cities remaining, to pick among the charred bones, the rubble of what was once temple and house, stable and brothel; to kick at stones; to tug at handles of buckets, blades of shovels and spades. Later, raising ash plumes in the scorched plain, cloths at their mouths and noses, eyes burning, neither fearful nor repentant but full of wonder, full of the scavenger's overabundant hope, they would have found her—even as now some men encounter the woman of their dreams (beauty of the movie screen, princess they capture with a camera's flash, girl whose finger brushes theirs when she takes their card at the market register)— found her, that is, not as the person she was but as whom they needed her to be, and, man or woman, each of them would have wanted a piece of her. Standing in that wasted landscape, she must have seemed a statue erected there as a tribute to human frailty, white, crystallized, her head turned back as if in longing to be the girl she had been in the city she had known. And they must have stood there, as we do, a bit awestruck, taking her in for a time, and then, with chisel and knife, spike and buckle, chipped at her violently and stuffed their leathern pouches full of her common salt, salt with which to season for a while their meat, their daily bread.

Gary J. Whitehead, Lot's wife

from here

Albrecht Dürer, Lot and his daughters (oil on panel, 1496/9)

from here

#gary j. whitehead #poetry #albrecht dürer #lot's wife #lot and his daughters #quote #lit

[nsfwbible]

Lot's wife (2023)

#lot's wife #pillar of salt #genesis 19

[youngmissmaple]

crying over sodom and gamorrah and lot's wife tonight

#friday night vibes #sodom and gomorrah #lot's wife #the bible is crazy #he offered up his daughters??? #she just turned to see her home get destroyed and got punished for it #fucking me up man

[decadentcolour]

What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't a Pillar of Salt)"

- Karen Finneyfrock

Do you remember when we met

in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless,

and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing

you, when we were young, and blushed with youth

like bruised fruit. Did we care then

what our neighbors did

in the dark?

When our first daughter was born

on the River Jordan, when our second

cracked her pink head from my body

like a promise, did we worry

what our friends might be

doing with their tongues?

What new crevices they found

to lick love into or strange flesh

to push pleasure from, when we

called them Sodomites then,

all we meant by it

was neighbor.

When the angels told us to run

from the city, I went with you,

but even the angels knew

that women always look back.

Let me describe for you, Lot,

what your city looked like burning

since you never turned around to see it.

Sulfur ran its sticky fingers over the skin

of our countrymen. It smelled like burning hair

and rancid eggs. I watched as our friends pulled

chunks of brimstone from their faces. Is any form

of loving this indecent?

Cover your eyes tight,

husband, until you see stars, convince

yourself you are looking at Heaven.

Because any man weak enough to hide his eyes while his neighbors

are punished for the way they love deserves a vengeful god.

I would say these things to you now, Lot,

but an ocean has dried itself on my tongue.

So instead I will stand here, while my body blows itself

grain by grain back over the Land of Canaan.

I will stand here

and I will watch you

run.

#Lot's wife #bible #Sodom #Gomorrah #poetry #poem

[1solone]

And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

So, she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Who will weep for this woman?

Isn't her death the least significant?

But my heart will never forget the one

Who gave her life for a single glance.

#lot's wife

[zagan-akerman]

Inktober Día 05 - La esposa de Lot

Entonces el Señor hizo que cayera del cielo una lluvia de fuego y azufre sobre Sodoma y Gomorra. Así destruyó a esas ciudades y a todos sus habitantes, junto con toda la llanura y la vegetación del suelo. Pero la esposa de Lot miró hacia atrás, y se quedó convertida en estatua de sal.

#illustration #inktober #inktober2023 #ink #black and white #zagan akerman #nicolas garcia barrera #bible #lot's wife

[realhankmccoy]

#lot's wife

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

你们当记得罗得的妻子！

Remember what happened to Lot's wife! — Luke 17:32 | 中文标准译本 Chinese Standard Bible Simplified (CSB Simplified) and New Living Translation (NLT) 现代标点和合本 (CUVMP Simplified) ©2011 Global Bible Initiative and New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 19:26; Luke 17:33

#Lot's wife #disobedience #worldly concerns #Luke 17:32 #Gospel of Luke #New Testament #Chinese Standard Bible Simplified #New Living Translation #NLT #CUVMP Simplified #Global Bible Initiative #Tyndale House Foundation

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead? #'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia) #especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing' #the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

[glowsticcc]

his name is philza minecraft and he is quite sad!

he is married to a skeleton and that is interesting!

both his kids! are a-sleep!

he’s so lonely! he’s so lonely!

#qsmp #art #digital art #glowsticcc doodles #<- bc it’s lower effort than my actual fanart #philza #qsmp philza #i miss my wife tails #i miss her a lot #give this guy his family back please #he’s so miserable

[scribbles-ink]

quick doodle

#scribbles' post #scribbles' art #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans #jizzie #actually obsessed w the fact joel put lizzie's ocean god self in his shrine #i went haha what if he makes lizzie part of the shrine and then he did it #im having so many feels guys #if i had a dollar. for every tike a green themed mcyt whose skin is basically cosplay joined a popular smp and connected his wife to it #by treating her as a goddess. id have two dollars. which isnt a lot but goddamn. weird that it happened twice

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

#rambling #disclaimer this isnt about individual christians im speaking about the religious trauma i experienced in my own life etc etc #these are just a few examples that I've noticed but they're definitely something #the part about sex in particular shocked me bc sex is pretty much viewed as actively evil in a lot of christian denominations #like you should only do it to create children and if you take pleasure in it (even if its with your own spouse) youre a dirty sinner #there arent as many examples like this nowadays but if you read puritan laws about sex it's like #you're allowed to have sex with your wife basically 10 times a year but you have to be fully clothed with the lights off #and you cant have sex on a holiday or a sunday and you cant touch each other and you have to try as hard as possible to hate it #literally WHERE did that mindset come from?? like for real #in judaism having sex with your spouse is basically considered a celebration of everything holy #and if you have sex on the sabbath (the holiest day in the jewish calendar—above every holiday) #its considered TWICE as holy #make it make sense #this is one of the things people mean when they say that lumping judaism in with christianity as 'abrahamic' religions is meaningless #theyre literally nothing alike #the only similarity is the torah but thats only half of the christian bible and one third of the jewish one #AND christianity interprets most of it completely differently from how judaism does #im tired #greatest hits #hall of fame

[soracities]

Does it matter why Lot's wife looked back? She looked back because she loved her daughters. She looked back because she loved her home. She looked back because she loved the past. She looked back because she loved the world. Remember Lot’s wife: it's intended as a warning, but I have adopted it as a creed. When the world burns, I will fill my eyes with as much of it as I possibly can. I can think of no greater honor than to remain on the earth. You are worth turning around for. You are worth transformation. You are the heat that lights the match that lights the hearth that warms me. You are everything.

Amelia K., “I: Vision - Eurydice, Mangan’s Sister, & Lot’s Wife”

#haunted by this essay that i never saved still STILL #q #lit #quotes #amelia k #essays #eurydice mangans sister and lots wife #one more kiss before we turn the lights off #favourite #m #x

[ventique18]

Surprise kisses

#daydreaming on commute #the prince x wife comic i promises is a lot longer than i thought so have this first #twisted wonderland #malleus draconia #malleus x reader #twst yuu