38. I will punish you as women guilty of adultery or as murderers are punished. I will put you to death because I am angry and jealous.
39. I will also hand you over to your lovers. They will tear down your places of worship and destroy other places where you worship gods. They will tear off your clothes and take away your jewelry, leaving you naked and bare.
40. They will bring a crowd against you to throw stones at you and to cut you into pieces with their swords.
41. They will burn down your houses and will punish you in front of many women. I will put an end to your sexual sins, and you will no longer pay your lovers.
42. Then I will rest from my anger against you, and I will stop being jealous. I will be quiet and not angry anymore.
43. “ ‘Because you didn’t remember when you were young, but have made me angry in all these ways, I will repay you for what you have done, says the Lord God. Didn’t you add sexual sins to all your other acts which I hate?
44. “ ‘Everyone who uses wise sayings will say this about you: “The daughter is like her mother.”
45. You are like your mother, who hated her husband and children. You are also like your sisters, who hated their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite.
46. Your older sister is Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters; your younger sister is Sodom, who lived south of you with her daughters.
47. You not only followed their ways and did the hateful things they did, but you were soon worse than they were in all your ways.
48. As surely as I live, says the Lord God, this is true. Your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
49. “ ‘This was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud and had plenty of food and lived in great comfort, but she did not help the poor and needy.