Ezekiel 16:44–52

⁴⁴Look! Everyone quoting a proverbⁱ against you, he will quote, saying,^j ‘Like her mother is her daughter!’ ⁴⁵You 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. ⁴⁶And 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. ⁴⁷And you have not only gone in their ways, but^k 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. ⁴⁸As surely as I live,’^m declaresⁿ the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as^o you and your daughters did. ⁴⁹Look! 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. ⁵¹And 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 sisters^w 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.