(A)If the Lord of armies
Had not left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

God Has Had Enough

10 Hear (D)the word of the Lord,
You rulers of (E)Sodom;
Listen to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah!

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

10 Hear the word of the Lord,(C)
    you rulers of Sodom;(D)
listen to the instruction(E) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!(F)

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[a]The expression of their faces testifies against them,
And they [b]display their sin like (A)Sodom;
They do not even conceal it.
Woe to [c]them!
For they have (B)done evil to themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:9 Or Their partiality testifies
  2. Isaiah 3:9 Lit proclaim
  3. Isaiah 3:9 Lit their soul

The look on their faces testifies(A) against them;
    they parade their sin like Sodom;(B)
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    They have brought disaster(C) upon themselves.

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14 Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a (A)horrible thing:
The committing of (B)adultery and walking in deceit;
And they strengthen the hands of (C)evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like (D)Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

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14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen something horrible:(A)
    They commit adultery and live a lie.(B)
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,(C)
    so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.(D)
They are all like Sodom(E) to me;
    the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”(F)

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46 Now your (A)older sister is Samaria, who lives [a]north of you with her [b]daughters; and your younger sister, who lives [c]south of you, is (B)Sodom with her [d]daughters.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit on your left
  2. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e., surrounding villages; so through v 55
  3. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit from your right
  4. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e., surrounding villages; so through v 55

46 Your older sister(A) was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.(B)

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49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had (A)arrogance, (B)plenty of food, and (C)carefree ease, but she did not [a]help the (D)poor and needy.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit grasp the hand of

49 “‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom:(A) She and her daughters were arrogant,(B) overfed and unconcerned;(C) they did not help the poor and needy.(D)

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