44 Look! Everyone quoting a proverbi against you, he will quote, ⌊saying⌋,j ‘Like her mother is her daughter!’ 45 You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters. 47 And you have not only gone in their ways, butk you also did according to their detestable things. ⌊In such a short time⌋l you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways. 48 ⌊As surely as I live⌋,’m ⌊declares⌋n the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do aso you and your daughters did. 49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and ⌊prosperous ease⌋p was to her and to her daughters, and ⌊she did not sustain the needy and the poor⌋.q 50 And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing ⌊before me⌋,r and I removed them ⌊because⌋s I saw it. 51 And Samaria did not sin ⌊according to even half of your sins⌋,t and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did.u 52 Also,v you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sistersw through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also,x you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous.

53 And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them, 54 in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them. 55 And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56 And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride 57 ⌊before⌋y your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you. 58 Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,’ ⌊declares⌋z Yahweh. 59 ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do ita to you ⌊according to what you have done⌋,b who despised the oath to break covenant.