their mother’s ugly likeness. The notion is a development of the two sisters, Judah and Israel or Jerusalem and Samaria, in the preexilic oracles of 23:2–27, 32–34. 46–47 Structurally, this pair of verses expresses in brief what vv 48–51bα will expand into a fuller form (cf. Parunak, “Structural Studies” 262, who excludes v 51bα). Both the abstract and the expansion claim that Jerusalem’s sin was worse than that of Samaria or Sodom. These two fallen cities were notorious for their sins that led to