55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state: Samaria also and her daughters shall return to their former state: [a]when thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.

56 For thy sister Sodom [b]was not heard of [c]by thy report in the day of thy pride,

57 Before thy wickedness was [d]discovered, as in that same time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, and of all the daughters of the Philistines round about [e]her, which despise thee on all sides.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:55 Meaning, that it should never come to pass.
  2. Ezekiel 16:56 Hebrew, was not a rumor in thy mouth.
  3. Ezekiel 16:56 Thou wouldest not call her punishment to mind when thou wast aloft, to learn by her example to fear my judgments.
  4. Ezekiel 16:57 That is, till thou wast brought under by the Syrians and Philistines, 2 Chron. 28:19.
  5. Ezekiel 16:57 Which joined with the Syrians, or compassed about Jerusalem.

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