55 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, [a]will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state. 56 As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride, 57 before your (A)wickedness was uncovered, [b]so now you have become the (B)reproach of the daughters of [c]Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:55 Heb includes will return...state after Sodom also
  2. Ezekiel 16:57 Lit as at the time of
  3. Ezekiel 16:57 So with many mss and one version; M.T. Aram

55 And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.(A) 56 You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned(B) by the daughters of Edom[a](C) and all her neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:57 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate Aram