Ezekiel 16:44-59

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴⁴ “Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

⁴⁵ “You are your mother’s daughter, who has cast off her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters who forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

⁴⁶ “And your elder sister is Samaria, and her daughters who dwell on your left. And your younger sister who dwells on your right is Sodom and her daughters.

⁴⁷ “Yet, you have not merely walked in their ways or followed after their abominations; but as if that were too little, you have been corrupted more than they in all your ways.

⁴⁸ “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “Sodom, your sister, has not done (she or her daughters) as you and your daughters have done.

⁴⁹ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister, Sodom: pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her, and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

⁵⁰ “But they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore, I took them away as it pleased Me.

⁵¹ “Nor has Samaria committed half of your sins. But you have exceeded them in your abominations and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

⁵² “Therefore, you, who have judged your sisters, bear shame for your own sins, in that you have committed more abominable ones than they (who are more righteous than you are). Therefore, you also should be disgraced, and bear your shame, seeing that you have judged your sisters.

⁵³ “Therefore I will bring back their captives, with the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and with the captives of Samaria and her daughters, the captives of your captives, in the midst of them,

⁵⁴ “so that you may bear your own shame and may be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.

⁵⁵ “And your sister, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former state. Samaria, also, and her daughters, shall return to their former state, when you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

⁵⁶ “For your sister, Sodom, was not mentioned by you in the days of your pride,

⁵⁷ “before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines all around her, who despise you in all directions.

⁵⁸ “You have borne your wickedness and your abomination,” says the LORD.

⁵⁹ ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “I might even deal with you as you have done when you despised the oath in breaking the Covenant.