42. So I will satisfy My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be silent and no longer angry.
43. Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged Me with all these things, I will also bring your actions down on your own head.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Haven’t you committed immoral acts in addition to all your detestable practices?
44. “Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you:Like mother, like daughter.
45. You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46. Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you, and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.
47. Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.
48. “As I live” — the declaration of the Lord God — “your sister Sodom and her daughters have not behaved as you and your daughters have.
49. Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but didn’t support the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before Me, so I removed them when I saw this.
51. But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable things you have committed.
52. You must also bear your disgrace, since you have been an advocate for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you because of your sins, which you committed more abhorrently than they did. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
53. “I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and those of Samaria and her daughters. I will also restore your fortunes among them,
54. so you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did when you comforted them.
55. As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
56. Didn’t you treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn when you were proud,
57. before your wickedness was exposed? It was like the time you were scorned by the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines — those who treated you with contempt from every side.
58. You yourself must bear the consequences of your indecency and detestable practices” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
59. “For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.