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"Behold, everyone who quotes ^(C1)proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, 'Like ^(F1)mother, like daughter.'

"You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the ^(C1)sister of your sisters, who ^(C2)loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

"Now your ^(C1)older sister is Samaria, who lives ^(F1)north of you with her ^(F2)daughters; and your younger sister, who lives ^(F3)south of you, is ^(C2)Sodom with her ^(F2)daughters.

"Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and ^(F1)committed their abominations; but, as if that were ^(C1)too little, you also acted ^(C2)more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

"As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom, your sister and her daughters have ^(C1)not done as you and your daughters have done!

"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had ^(C1)arrogance, ^(C2)plenty of food, and ^(C3)carefree ease, but she did not ^(F1)help the ^(C4)poor and needy.

"So they were haughty and committed ^(C1)abominations before Me. Therefore I ^(C2)removed them ^(F1)when I saw it.

"Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. So you have made your sisters appear ^(C1)innocent by all your abominations which you have committed.

"Also, bear your disgrace in that you have ^(F1)made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted ^(C1)more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear innocent.