Ezekiel 16:48
48
As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
Read Ezekiel 16:48 Using Other Translations
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.
As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
What does Ezekiel 16:48 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Ezekiel 16:48
[As] I live, saith the Lord God
This is an oath, which the Lord God swore; who, because he could
swear by no greater, he swore by himself, by his life; and this
he did to confirm what he had and was about to say, that the sins
of Judah were greater than those of Samaria and Sodom; which
might not be easily believed, but it was as true as he was the
living God: Sodom thy sister hath, or done, she nor her
daughters, as thou hast
done, thou and thy daughters;
that is, the inhabitants of Sodom, and of the villages adjacent,
as the Targum, had not committed such gross iniquities as the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the towns and villages about it,
and of other cities of Judah.
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