Ezekiel 16
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 16:44-52

44“Behold, everyone who quotes 1proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘2Like mother, 3like daughter.’ 45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the 4sister of your sisters, who 5loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46Now your 6older sister is Samaria, who lives 7north of you with her 8daughters; and your younger sister, who lives 9south of you, is 10Sodom with her 11daughters. 47Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were 12too little, you acted 13more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have 14not done as you and your daughters have done. 49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had 15arrogance, 16abundant food and 17careless ease, but she did not 18help the 19poor and needy. 50Thus they were haughty and committed 20abominations before Me. Therefore I 21removed them 22when I saw it. 51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear 23righteous by all your abominations which you have committed. 52Also bear your disgrace in that you have 24made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted 25more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

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  1. 1. Ezekiel 16:44 1 Sam 24:13; Ezek 12:22, 23; 18:2, 3 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 16:44 Lit Her ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 16:44 Lit Her ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 16:45 Ezek 23:2 ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 16:45 Is 1:4; Ezek 23:37-39; Zech 11:8 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 16:46 Jer 3:8-11; Ezek 23:4 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit on your left ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55 ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit from your right ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 16:46 Gen 13:10-13; 18:20; Ezek 16:48, 49, 53-56, 61 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55 ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 16:47 1 Kin 16:31 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 16:47 2 Kin 21:9; Ezek 5:6; 16:48, 51 ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 16:48 Matt 10:15; 11:23, 24 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 19:9; Ps 138:6; Is 3:9; Ezek 28:2, 9, 17 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 13:10; Is 22:13; Amos 6:4-6 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 16:49 Luke 12:16-20; 16:19 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit grasp the hand of ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 16:49 Ezek 18:7, 12, 16 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 13:13; 18:20; 19:5 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 19:24, 25 ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 16:50 Many ancient mss and versions read as you have seen ↩
  23. 23. Ezekiel 16:51 Jer 3:8-11 ↩
  24. 24. Ezekiel 16:52 Lit mediated for ↩
  25. 25. Ezekiel 16:52 Ezek 16:47, 48, 51 ↩

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