Add parallel Print Page Options

49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and prosperous ease[a] was to her and to her daughters, and she did not sustain the needy and the poor.[b] 50 And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing before me,[c] and I removed them because[d] I saw it. 51 And Samaria did not sin according to even half of your sins,[e] and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did.[f]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:49 Literally “and ease of granting relief”
  2. Ezekiel 16:49 Literally “And the hand of the needy and the poor not she did take hold of”
  3. Ezekiel 16:50 Literally “to the face of me”
  4. Ezekiel 16:50 Literally “as that”
  5. Ezekiel 16:51 Literally “about/as/like the half of sins your not did she sin”
  6. Ezekiel 16:51 According to the reading tradition (Qere); cf. BHS