Ezekiel 16:44–52

More Wicked Than Samaria and Sodom

⁴⁴“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’ ⁴⁵You are your mother’s daughter, ⁷loathing husband and children; and you are the ^vsister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; ^wyour mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

⁴⁶“Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and ^xyour younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, ^yyou became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

⁴⁸“As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither ^zyour sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, ^afullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰And they were haughty and ^bcommitted abomination before Me; therefore ^cI took them away as ⁸I saw fit.

⁵¹“Samaria did not commit ^dhalf of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and ^ehave justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. ⁵²You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.