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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]

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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

49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:(A) She and her daughters were arrogant,(B) overfed and unconcerned;(C) they did not help the poor and needy.(D) 50 They were haughty(E) and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.(F) 51 Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.(G)

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