44 “‘Everyone who quotes proverbs(A) will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.” 45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised(B) her husband(C) and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.(D) 46 Your older sister(E) was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.(F) 47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(G) 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign(H) Lord, your sister Sodom(I) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.(J)

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