39. Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.
40. They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
41. They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.
42. “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.
43. But first, because you have not remembered your youth but have angered me by doing all these evil things, I will fully repay you for all of your sins, says the Sovereign lord. For you have added lewd acts to all your detestable sins.
44. Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45. For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46. “Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south.
47. But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
48. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
49. Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.
50. She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.
51. “Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more detestable things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you.
52. Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.
53. “But someday I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and Samaria, and I will restore you, too.
54. Then you will be truly ashamed of everything you have done, for your sins make them feel good in comparison.
55. Yes, your sisters, Sodom and Samaria, and all their people will be restored, and at that time you also will be restored.
56. In your proud days you held Sodom in contempt.
57. But now your greater wickedness has been exposed to all the world, and you are the one who is scorned—by Edom and all her neighbors and by Philistia.
58. This is your punishment for all your lewdness and detestable sins, says the lord.
59. “Now this is what the Sovereign lord says: I will give you what you deserve, for you have taken your solemn vows lightly by breaking your covenant.