46. Your older sister is Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters; your younger sister is Sodom, who lived south of you with her daughters.
47. You not only followed their ways and did the hateful things they did, but you were soon worse than they were in all your ways.
48. As surely as I live, says the Lord God, this is true. Your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
49. “ ‘This was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud and had plenty of food and lived in great comfort, but she did not help the poor and needy.
50. So Sodom and her daughters were proud and did things I hate in front of me. So I got rid of them when I saw what they did.
51. Also, Samaria did not do half the sins you do; you have done more hateful things than they did. So you make your sisters look good because of all the hateful things you have done.
52. You will suffer disgrace, because you have provided an excuse for your sisters. They are better than you are. Your sins were even more terrible than theirs. Feel ashamed and suffer disgrace, because you made your sisters look good.
53. “ ‘But I will give back to Sodom and her daughters the good things they once had. I will give back to Samaria and her daughters the good things they once had. And with them I will also give back the good things you once had
54. so you may suffer disgrace and feel ashamed for all the things you have done. You even gave comfort to your sisters in their sins.
55. Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before. You and your daughters will also return to what you were before.
56. You humiliated your sister Sodom when you were proud,
57. before your evil was uncovered. And now the Edomite women and their neighbors humiliate you. Even the Philistine women humiliate you. Those around you hate you.
58. This is your punishment for your terrible sins and for actions that I hate, says the Lord.
59. “ ‘This is what the Lord God says: I will do to you what you have done. You hated and broke the agreement you promised to keep.
60. But I will remember my agreement I made with you when you were young, and I will make an agreement that will continue forever with you.
61. Then you will remember what you have done and feel ashamed when you receive your sisters—both your older and your younger sisters. I will give them to you like daughters, but not because they share in my agreement with you.
62. I will set up my agreement with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.