⁴⁷ You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.^(A)

⁹ But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil^(A) than the nations^(B) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

⁵¹ Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.^(A)

⁴⁸ As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign^(A) Lord, your sister Sodom^(B) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.^(C)

⁶ Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees.^(A)

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even^[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.^(B)

³¹ He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married^(A) Jezebel daughter^(B) of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal^(C) and worship him.

Dealing With a Case of Incest

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.^(A)

²¹ They will treat you this way because of my name,^(A) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(B) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them,^(C) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^(D)

¹⁷ He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things^(A) they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence^(B) and continually arouse my anger?^(C) Look at them putting the branch to their nose!