⁴⁶ “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and ^(A)your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.

⁶¹ Then ^(A)you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for ^(B)daughters, ^(C)but not because of My covenant with you.

^53 (A)“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back ^(B)the captives of your captivity among them, ⁵⁴ that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when ^(C)you comforted them. ⁵⁵ When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. ⁵⁶ For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,

⁵¹ “Samaria did not commit ^(A)half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and ^(B)have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.

⁴⁸ “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither ^(A)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, ^(B)fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

⁸ Then I saw that ^(A)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had ^(B)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; ^(C)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. ⁹ So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she ^(D)defiled the land and committed adultery with ^(E)stones and trees. ¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me ^(F)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.

¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, ^(G)“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ^(A)the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^(B)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^(C)like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^(D)Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. ¹² Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^(E)dwelt in the cities of the plain and ^(F)pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom ^(G)were exceedingly wicked and ^(H)sinful against the Lord.

⁸ And their dead bodies will lie in the street of ^(A)the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, ^(B)where also ^[a]our Lord was crucified.