16:44 「凡說俗語的必用俗語攻擊你，說：『母親怎樣，女兒也怎樣。』
16:45 你正是你母親的女兒，厭棄丈夫和兒女；你正是你姊妹的姊妹，厭棄丈夫和兒女。你母親是赫人，你父親是亞摩利人。
16:46 你的姊姊是撒馬利亞，她和她的眾女住在你左邊；你的妹妹是所多瑪，她和她的眾女住在你右邊。
16:47 你沒有效法她們的行為，也沒有照她們可憎的事去做，你以那為小事，你一切所行的倒比她們更壞。
16:48 主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，你妹妹所多瑪與她的眾女尚未行你和你眾女所行的事。
16:49 看哪，你妹妹所多瑪的罪孽是這樣：她和她的眾女都心驕氣傲，糧食飽足，大享安逸，並沒有扶助困苦和窮乏人的手。
16:50 她們狂傲，在我面前行可憎的事，我看見便將她們除掉。
16:51 撒馬利亞沒有犯你一半的罪，你行可憎的事比她更多，使你的姊妹因你所行一切可憎的事，倒顯為義。
16:52 你既斷定你姊妹為義（為義：或譯當受羞辱），就要擔當自己的羞辱；因你所犯的罪比她們更為可憎，她們就比你更顯為義；你既使你的姊妹顯為義，你就要抱愧擔當自己的羞辱。」
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will
use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ You are the daughter of your mother, who
loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters,
who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and
your father an Amorite. And your elder
sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your
younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her
daughters. Not only did you walk in
their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time
you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister
Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister
Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease,
but did not aid the poor and needy. They
were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw
it. Samaria has not committed half your
sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your
sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have
intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted
more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed,
you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear
righteous.
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先知在此說的話是要耶路撒冷清楚自己犯罪受到上帝憎惡，而這城市的罪惡比所多瑪還嚴重！雖然口氣很重，但是上帝的用意是要他們悔改！
其實教會若有犯罪的事，最難過的是上帝，責備最重的也是上帝！正如上帝則被耶路撒冷一樣，重要的是教會要常常在上帝面前認罪、悔改！
今天我們還自以為義嗎？當求基督的寶血洗淨！我們自以為教會興旺是我們關心人結果，非也！若不是上帝自己透過基督吸引人，沒有人會到上帝面前，不要將榮耀歸給自己。
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