As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
Parallel translations
- WEB As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
- KJV As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
- NKJV “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
- NASB As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done!
- NLT As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
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God swears that not even Sodom did what Jerusalem has done. Jerusalem's sin exceeds Sodom's.
Overview
With an oath ('As I live'), God declares Jerusalem's guilt greater than the proverbially wicked Sodom. This astonishing claim shatters every pretension to superiority. It forces the people to confront that covenant privilege abused makes them more culpable than the pagans they despised.
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Cross-references · 5
- Matt 10:15Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
- Luke 10:12I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
- Matt 11:23–24And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Mark 6:11If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”
- Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
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