44. “See, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, ‘Like mother, like daughter!’
45. “You are your mother’s daughter, who despises her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Ḥittite and your father an Amorite.
46. “And your elder sister is Shomeron, she and her daughters, who is dwelling to the north of you. And your younger sister, who is dwelling to the south of you, is Seḏom and her daughters.
47. “And have you not walked in their ways and did according to their abominations? But in all your ways you soon became more corrupt than they.