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.
55. So you and your sisters will be rebuilt. Sodom and the towns around her, Samaria and the towns around her, and you and the towns around you will all be rebuilt.
56. “In the past, you were proud and made fun of your sister Sodom. But you will not do that again.
57. You did that before you were punished, before your neighbors started making fun of you. The daughters of Edom and Philistia are making fun of you now.
58. Now you must suffer for the terrible things you did.” This is what the Lord said.
59. This is what the Lord GOD said: “I will treat you like you treated me! You broke your marriage promise. You did not respect our agreement.
60. But I will remember the agreement we made when you were young. I made an agreement with you that will continue forever!