Ezechiel 16:48
As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus, quia non fecit Sodoma soror tua, ipsa et filiæ ejus, sicut fecisti tu et filiæ tuæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ζῶ ἐγὼ, λέγει Κύριος, εἰ πεποίηκεν Σόδομα, αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῆς, ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησας σὺ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- חַי אָ֗נִי נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה אִם עָֽשְׂתָה֙ סְדֹ֣ם אֲחוֹתֵ֔ךְ הִ֖יא וּבְנוֹתֶ֑יהָ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔ית אַ֖תְּ וּבְנוֹתָֽיִךְ
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
3. Furthermore I questioned him about another saying that is written in Ezekiel; namely, that he said to Jerusalem: Sodom and her daughters shall be built up as of old, and thou and thy daughters shall become as of old . So he explained this saying to me, and began to make a defence, and said to me “As to this that God said to Jerusalem by the Prophet, Sodom and her daughters shall be built up as of old, and thou and thy daughters shall become as of old; this is the force of the passage, that Sodom and her daughters shall be in their place as of old, and shall be made subject to Israel; and Jerusalem and her daughters shall be in the splendour of royalty as of old.” When I heard this defence from him, it was very contemptible in my eyes, and I said to him: “Inasmuch as the words of the Prophet were said in wrath, is the whole passage wrathful, or is part of it wrathful and part of it gra …