² “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.^(A)

⁴⁴ “‘Everyone who quotes proverbs^(A) will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.” ⁴⁵ You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised^(B) her husband^(C) and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.^{(D) 46} Your older sister^(E) was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.^(F)

⁷ I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister^(A) Judah saw it.^{(B) 8} I gave faithless Israel^(C) her certificate of divorce^(D) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;^(E) she also went out and committed adultery. ⁹ Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land^(F) and committed adultery^(G) with stone^(H) and wood.^{(I) 10} In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return^(J) to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,^(K)” declares the Lord.^(L)