43 Because ayou did not remember the days of your youth, but1 agitated Me with all these things, surely bI will also recompense your deeds on your own head,” says the Lord God. “And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
More Wicked than Samaria and Sodom
44 “Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’
45 You are your mother’s daughter,1 loathing husband and children; and you are the asister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; byour mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and ayour younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.
47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, ayou became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither ayour sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, afullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty and acommitted abomination before Me; therefore bI took them away as I saw fit.
51 “Samaria did not commit ahalf of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and bhave justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
52 You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
53 a“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back bthe captives of your captivity among them,
54 that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when ayou comforted them.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Definitions of words in Ezekiel 16:45:
Father {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Father {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Husband {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Husband {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Mother {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
Amorite {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
Hittite {Hitchcock's Bible Names}
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