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.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:45 Or despising

45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised(A) her husband(B) 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.(C) 46 Your older sister(D) 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.(E) 47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(F)

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