43
BECAUSE YOU DID NOT REMEMBER THE DAYS OF YOUR YOUTH
BUT
ENRAGED ME WITH ALL THESE THINGS,
I
will surely bring down on your head what you have done,
DECLARES
THE SOVEREIGN LORD.
Did
you not add Lewdness to all your other Detestable Practiced?
44
“Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you:
'LIKE
MOTHER , LIKE DAUGHTER.'
45
You are a True Daughter of your mother,
Who
Despised her husband and her children;
And
you are a True Sister of your Sisters,
Who
Despised their husbands and their children.
46
Your older Sister was Samaria,
Who
lived to the north of you with her daughters;
And
your younger Sister,
Who
lived to the south with her daughters, WAS SODOM.
47
You not only walked in their ways
And
copied their Detestable Practices,
BUT
IN ALL YOUR WAYS
YOU
SOON BECAME MORE DETESTABLE THAN THEY.
48
AS SURELY AS I LIVE, DECLARES THE SOVEREIGN LORD,
Your
Sister Sodom and her daughters
NEVER
DID WHAT YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE.
49
'NOW THIS WAS THE SIN OF YOUR SISTER SODOM:
SHE
AND HER DAUGHTERS
WERE
ARROGANT, OVERFED AND UNCONCERNED;
THEY
DID NOT HELP THE POOR AND NEEDY.
50
THEY WERE HAUGHTY AND DID DETESTABLE THINGS BEFORE ME.
THEREFORE
I DID AWAY WITH THEM AS YOU HAVE SEEN.
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.
52
BEAR YOUR DISGRACE,
FOR
YOU HAVE FURNISHED SOME JUSTIFICATION FOR YOUR SISTERS.
Because
your Sins were more Vile than theirs,
They
appear more Righteous than you.
SO
THEN, BE ASHAMED AND BEAR YOUR DISGRACE,
FOR YOU HAVE MADE YOUR SISTERS APPEAR RIGHTEOUS.
53
'However, I will Restore the Fortunes of Sodom and her daughters
And
of Samaria and her daughters, and your Fortunes along with them,
54
So that you may bear your Disgrace and be Ashamed
Of
all you have done in giving them comfort.
55
And your Sisters, Sodom with her daughters
And
Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before;
And
you and your daughters will return to what you were before.
56
YOU WOULD NOT EVEN MENTION YOUR SISTER SODOM
IN
THE DAY OF YOUR PRIDE,
57 BEFORE YOUR WICKEDNESS WAS UNCOVERED.
Even
so, you are now Scorned by the daughters of Edom
And
all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines--
ALL
THOSE AROUND YOU WHO DESPISE YOU.
58
YOU WILL BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR LEWDNESS
AND YOUR DETESTABLE PRACTICES, DECLARES THE LORD.
59
THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS:
I
will deal with you as you deserve,
BECAUSE
YOU HAVE DESPISED MY OATH
BY
BREAKING THE COVENANT.
60
Yet I will remember the Covenant I made with you
In
the days of your youth,
AND
I WILL ESTABLISH AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH YOU.
61
Then you will remember your ways and be Ashamed
When
you receive your Sisters,
Both
those who are older than you and those who are younger.
I
will give them to you as Daughters,
But
not on the Basis of My Covenant with you.
62
SO I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU,
AND
YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.
63
THEN, I WILL MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOU
FOR
ALL YOU HAVE DONE,
You
will remember and be Ashamed
And
never again open your mouth because of your Humiliation,
DECLARES
THE SOVEREIGN LORD.'
(Ezekiel
16:43-63)
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