42. When I have spent my fury upon you I will stop being jealous about you, and calm down, no longer angry.
43. Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, see, I am bringing down your ways upon your head—oracle of the Lord God. Have you not added depravity to your other abominations?
44. See, everyone who makes proverbs will make this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”
45. Yes, you are truly the daughter of your mother who rejected her husband and children: you are truly a sister to your sisters who rejected their husbands and children—your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46. Your elder sister was Samaria with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister was Sodom and her daughters, south of you.
47. Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.
48. As I live—oracle of the Lord God—I swear that your sister Sodom with her daughters have not done the things you and your daughters have done!
49. Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were proud, sated with food, complacent in prosperity. They did not give any help to the poor and needy.
50. Instead, they became arrogant and committed abominations before me; then, as you have seen, I removed them.
51. Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more abominable things than they did. You even made your sisters look righteous, with all the abominations you have done.
52. You, then, must bear your disgrace, for you have made a case for your sisters! Because your sins are more abominable than theirs, they seem righteous compared to you. Blush for shame, and bear the disgrace of having made your sisters appear righteous.
53. I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters—and your fortunes along with them.
54. Thus you must bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done to bring them comfort.
55. Yes, your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Samaria and her daughters, shall return to the way they were, and you and your daughters shall return to the way you were.
56. Did you not hold your sister Sodom in bad repute while you felt proud of yourself,