¹⁸ so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, ^(A)whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, ^(B)and that there may not be among you a root bearing ^(C)bitterness or wormwood;

⁴⁵ You are your mother’s daughter, ^[a]loathing husband and children; and you are the ^(A)sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; ^(B)your 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 ^(C)your 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, ^(D)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

⁴⁸ “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither ^(E)your 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, ^(F)fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ And they were haughty and ^(G)committed abomination before Me; therefore ^(H)I took them away as ^[b]I saw fit.

⁵¹ “Samaria did not commit ^(I)half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and ^(J)have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.

¹⁵ looking carefully lest anyone ^(A)fall short of the grace of God; lest any ^(B)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

²⁴ But I say to you ^(A)that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”