Ezekiel 16
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Ezekiel 16:46-55

46Now your 1older sister is Samaria, who lives 2north of you with her 3daughters; and your younger sister, who lives 4south of you, is 5Sodom with her 6daughters. 47Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were 7too little, you acted 8more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have 9not done as you and your daughters have done. 49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had 10arrogance, 11abundant food and 12careless ease, but she did not 13help the 14poor and needy. 50Thus they were haughty and committed 15abominations before Me. Therefore I 16removed them 17when 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 18righteous by all your abominations which you have committed. 52Also bear your disgrace in that you have 19made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted 20more 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.

53“Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and 21along with them 22your own captivity, 54in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel 23ashamed for all that you have done when you become 24a consolation to them. 55Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, 25will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.

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  1. 1. Ezekiel 16:46 Jer 3:8-11; Ezek 23:4 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit on your left ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55 ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit from your right ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 16:46 Gen 13:10-13; 18:20; Ezek 16:48, 49, 53-56, 61 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 16:47 1 Kin 16:31 ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 16:47 2 Kin 21:9; Ezek 5:6; 16:48, 51 ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 16:48 Matt 10:15; 11:23, 24 ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 19:9; Ps 138:6; Is 3:9; Ezek 28:2, 9, 17 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 13:10; Is 22:13; Amos 6:4-6 ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 16:49 Luke 12:16-20; 16:19 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit grasp the hand of ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 16:49 Ezek 18:7, 12, 16 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 13:13; 18:20; 19:5 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 19:24, 25 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 16:50 Many ancient mss and versions read as you have seen ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 16:51 Jer 3:8-11 ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 16:52 Lit mediated for ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 16:52 Ezek 16:47, 48, 51 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 16:53 Lit in their midst ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 16:53 Lit the captivity of your captivity ↩
  23. 23. Ezekiel 16:54 Jer 2:26 ↩
  24. 24. Ezekiel 16:54 Ezek 14:22, 23 ↩
  25. 25. Ezekiel 16:55 Heb includes will return...state after Sodom also ↩

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