Syria and Phillistines Versus Israel, Sodom, Samaria

²⁴ You have also:

• built an eminent place for yourself, and a high place in every street.
• ²⁵ built your high place at every head of the way
• made your beauty abhorred
• opened your feet to every one that passed by
• multiplied your whoredoms
• ²⁶ committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbours, great of flesh
• have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

²⁷ Therefore, I:

• have stretched out my hand over you
• have reduced your ordinary food
• delivered you unto the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way.

²⁸ You have played:

• the whore also with the Assyrians, because you wast unsatiable.
• the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

²⁹ You have multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea.

Yet you were not satisfied.

³⁰ How weak is your heart seeing you doe all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman?

³¹ You:

• build your eminent place in the head of every way
• make your high place in every street

³² You have not been as an harlot in that you scornest hire, but a wife who committed adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

³³ They give gifts to all whores.

But you:

• give your gifts to all your lovers

• hire them so that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom

³⁴ The contrary is the other [Israelites] who did not follow you to commit whoredoms.

^35-36 O harlot:

• your filthiness was poured out
• your nakedness was discovered through:
  • your whoredoms with your lovers and with the idols of your abominations
  • by the blood of your children which you gave to them

³⁷ So I will gather all your lovers to see your nakedness

³⁸ I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged.

I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.

³⁹ I will also give you into their hand.

They shall:

• throw down your eminent place
• break down your high places
• strip you also of your clothes
• take your fair jewels
• leave you naked and bare.
• ⁴⁰ bring up a company against you
• stone you
• thrust you with their swords.
• ⁴¹ burn your houses with fire
• execute judgments on you in the sight of many women

I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.

⁴² This will calm me down.

⁴³ You have not remembered the days of your youth.

You have fretted me in all these things.

So I will also recompense your way on your head.

You shall not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.

⁴⁴ Every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you: As is the mother, so is her daughter.

⁴⁵ You are:

• your mother’s daughter, that lothed her husband and her children.
• the sister of your sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children

Your mother was a Hittite.

Your father was an Amorite

⁴⁶ Your elder sister is Samaria.

She and her daughters dwell at your left hand.

Your younger sister is Sodom and her daughters.

• They dwell at your right hand

⁴⁷ Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations.

But, you were more corrupted than they in all your ways, as if that were a very little thing.

⁴⁸ As I live, Sodom your sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as you hast done, you and your daughters.

⁴⁹ The iniquity of your sister Sodom were:

• pride
• fullness of bread
• abundance of idleness in her and her daughters

They did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

⁵⁰ They were haughty, and committed abomination before me.

Therefore, I took them away as I saw good.

⁵¹ Neither had Samaria committed half of your sins.

But you have:

• multiplied your abominations more than they
• justified your sisters in all your abominations
• ⁵¹ judged your sisters, bearing your own shame for your sins more abominable than theirs

They are more righteous than you.

yea, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you hast justified your sisters.

⁵³ After I make capitves of Sodom and Samaria and their daughters, I will make you captives for them to see.

⁵⁵ In that way, you may:

• bear your own shame
• be confounded in all that you have done, in that you art a comfort to them.

⁵⁵ You and your daughters shall return to your former estate after Sodom and Samaria and their daughters return to theirs

⁵⁶ Your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride.

⁵⁷ The daughters of Syria and all around her discovered your wickedness and reproached you.

• This included the daughters of the Philistines who despise everything about you.

⁵⁸ You have borne your lewdness and your abominations.

⁵⁹ I will even deal with you as you have done, which has despised the oath and broken the covenant.

⁶⁰ Nevertheless, I will:

• remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth
• establish an everlasting covenant with you

⁶¹ Then you shall remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, elder and your younger.

I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

⁶² I will establish my covenant with you. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁶³ After I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, then you will remember and never open your mouth any more because of your shame.