44. The Lord said, “People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45. You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.
46. “Your elder sister is Samaria, in the north, with her villages. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.
47. Were you content to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were behaving worse than they were in everything you did.
48. “As surely as I am the living God,” the Sovereign Lord says, “your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done.