Have you not copied their behavior<n id="1" /> and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time<n id="2" /> you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;See, I strike my hands together<n id="1" /> at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed<n id="2" /> they have done among you.

<p class="poetry">By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself;p> <p class="poetry">you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.p>

When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.<n id="1" />p>

As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.p>

Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did.<n id="1" /> You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done,<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?p>

Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent<n id="1" /> when I make atonement for all you have done,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom;<n id="1" /> the end of your years has come.<n id="2" /> Therefore I will make<n id="3" /> you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.