45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the (A)sister of your sisters, who (B)loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 Now your (C)older sister is Samaria, who lives [a]north of you with her [b]daughters; and your younger sister, who lives [c]south of you, is (D)Sodom with her [d]daughters. 47 Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were (E)too little, you acted (F)more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit on your left
  2. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55
  3. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit from your right
  4. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e. environs; so through v 55

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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