For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
Parallel translations
- KJV For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
- BSB Did you not treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn in the day of your pride,
- NKJV For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
- NASB As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,
- NLT In your proud days you held Sodom in contempt.
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Quick answer
In her days of pride Jerusalem despised Sodom and would not even speak her name. Pride blinds us to our own greater guilt.
Overview
Jerusalem once treated Sodom as a byword for wickedness, refusing to associate herself with such sin. God exposes this arrogance, showing that her own abominations had exceeded Sodom's. The verse warns against the self-righteous contempt that overlooks the log in one's own eye.
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Cross-references · 4
- Isa 65:5who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
- Zeph 3:11In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
- Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 15:28–30But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.
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