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'Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord!
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Thus says the Lord God: "Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
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surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
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And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.
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I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
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They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
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They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
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So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more.
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Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head," says the Lord God. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
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"Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: 'Like mother, like daughter!'
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You are your mother's daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.
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You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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As I live," says the Lord God, "neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
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Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
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Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
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You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
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"When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them,
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that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them.
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When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state.