Haven’t you added prostitution to all your other detestable practices? 44 Listen, everyone who speaks proverbs about you will say, “Like mother, like daughter.” 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her children, and you are the sister of your sisters, who detested their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite.

46 Your older sister was Shomron (Samaria), and her daughters were the ones living in the north, while your younger sister was the one living south of you, that is, Sodom and her daughters. 47 Not only did you follow their customs and copy their behaviour and practices, but in everything you did, you’ve been worse than they were.

48 This is the master Yahweh’s declaration: As I live, your sister Sodom and her daughters didn’t do as much evil as you and your daughters have done. 49 Listen, your sister Sodom’s sin was that she was arrogant in her leisure, careless and unconcerned about anything. She didn’t assist the poor and needy people. 50 She was arrogant and performed disgusting actions in front of me, so I took them away, just as you’ve seen.

51 As for Shomron, they didn’t commit even half of your sins. No, you’ve done many more disgusting things than they did, and you’ve shown that your sisters were better than you, because of all the disgusting things you do. 52 Also how you display your own shame—you’ve shown that your sisters were better than you by the sins you committed in all those disgusting ways. Your sisters now seem better than you.

53 From their captivity, I’ll restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and of Shomron and her daughters, and your fortunes will be similar,[fn] 54 so that you’ll display your shame. You’ll be humiliated because of everything you’ve done, and in that way you’ll be a consolation to Sodom and Shomron. 55 Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former condition, and Shomron and her daughters will be restored similarly. Then you and your daughters will be restored to your former condition. 56 You never even mentioned your sister Sodom in the period when you were proud, 57 before your wickedness was revealed. But now you’re an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram (Syria) and to all the daughters of the Philistines around her. People all around despise you. 58 You’ll display your shame and your disgusting actions. That’s Yahweh’s declaration.