³² If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

¹¹ And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

⁵¹ Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

⁵² Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.