^47 (A)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time ^(B)you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

^51 (A)Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and ^(B)have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

^48 (A)As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister ^(B)Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

⁶ And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness ^(A)more than the nations, and against my statutes more than ^(B)the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes. ⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are ^(C)more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, ^(D)and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, ^(E)and have not^[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,

³¹ And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(A)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^(B)Sidonians, ^(C)and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is ^(A)sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, ^(B)for a man has his father's wife.

²¹ But ^(A)all these things they will do to you ^(B)on account of my name, ^(C)because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(D)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin.

¹⁷ Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^(A)son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit ^(B)the abominations that they commit here, that ^(C)they should fill the land with violence and ^(D)provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their^[a] nose.