Ezekiel 16:35-52

35“Therefore, you prostitute, listen to this message from the Lord!

36This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols, and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,

37this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you.

38I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury.

39Then 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.

40They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.

41They 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.

43But 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.

44Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

45For 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.

47But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.

48As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.

49Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.

50She 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.

52Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.