37. So I am bringing all of your lovers together. I will bring all the men you loved and all the men you hated. I will bring them all together and let them see you naked. They will see you completely naked.
38. Then I will punish you. I will punish you as a murderer and a woman who committed the sin of adultery. You will be punished as if by an angry and jealous husband.
39. I will let those lovers have you. They will destroy your mounds. They will burn your places for worship. They will tear off your clothes and take your beautiful jewelry. They will leave you bare and naked as you were when I found you.
40. They will bring a crowd of people and throw rocks at you to kill you. Then they will cut you into pieces with their swords.
41. They will burn your house. They will punish you so that all the other women can see. I will stop you from living like a prostitute. I will stop you from paying money to your lovers.
42. Then I will stop being angry and jealous. I will calm down. I will not be angry anymore.
43. Why will all these things happen? Because you did not remember what happened when you were young. You did all those bad things and made me angry. So I had to punish you for doing them, but you planned even more terrible things.” This is what the Lord GOD said.
44. “All the people who talk about you will now have one more thing to say. They will say, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45. You are your mother’s daughter. You don’t care about your husband or your children. You are like your sister. Both of you hated your husband and your children. You are like your parents. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.
46. Your older sister was Samaria. She lived to the north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodom. She lived to the south of you with her daughters.
47. You did all the terrible things they did, but you also did much worse!
48. I am the Lord GOD. As I live, I swear that your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as many bad things as you and your daughters.
49. “Your sister Sodom and her daughters were proud. They had too much to eat and too much time on their hands, and they did not help poor, helpless people.
50. Sodom and her daughters became too proud and began to do terrible things in front of me. So I punished them!
51. “And Samaria did only half as many bad things as you did. You did many more terrible things than Samaria! You have done so many more terrible things than your sisters have done. Sodom and Samaria seem good compared to you.
52. So you must bear your shame. You have made your sisters look good compared to you. You have done terrible things, so you should be ashamed.
53. “I destroyed Sodom and the towns around it, and I destroyed Samaria and the towns around it. And I will destroy you too, Jerusalem. But I will build those cities again, and I will rebuild you too.
54. I will comfort you. Then you will remember the terrible things you did, and you will be ashamed.