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title: "Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "Thomas Myers"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 55 of 69
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-ezekiel-volume-2/55/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. Thomas Myers, Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2, section 55. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-ezekiel-volume-2/55/"
---

# Commentary on Ezekiel, Volume 2

*John Calvin, tr. Thomas Myers*

Calvin on the prophet Ezekiel, volume 2 of 2.

## 55. Chapter 16 · 2 of 2

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[¶0] 46 And your elder sister is Samaria, and her daughters those who dwell at thy left hand; And thy younger sister, who dwells at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

[¶1] 47 Yet you has not walked in their ways, And you has not done according to their abominations, As if it had been a very small firing, And you has been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

[¶2] 48 As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, If Sodom thy sister and her daughters have done As you and thy daughters have done.

[¶3] 49 Lo! this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Pride, fullness of bread, and security of ease Belonged to her and her daughters and she did not lay hold Of the hand of the poor and needy; but she was haughty,

[¶4] 50 And did abomination before me, Hence I took them away as it pleased me.

[¶5] 51 And Samaria has not committed half of thy sins; But you has multiplied your abominations beyond them, And has justified thy sisters in all the abominations which you has done.

[¶6] 52 Bear you, then, thy disgrace by which you has pleaded for thy sister, By thy crimes which you has committed beyond them; They are justified more than you be you then ashamed, And bear thy disgrace, since you has justified thy sisters.

[¶7] 53 Yet will I turn the captivity, yea, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captivities in the midst of them,

[¶8] 54 That you mayest bear thy reproach, and mayest be ashamed Of all that you has done in consoling them.

[¶9] 55 And thy sisters Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters shall return to theirs, And you and thy daughters shall return to yours.

[¶10] 56 Then thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thee, In the day of thy pride, before thy wickedness was detected;

[¶11] 57 As in the time of thy reproach from the daughters of Syria, And from all around of the daughters of the Philistines, Who despised thee round about.

[¶12] 58 As for thy depraved thoughts and abominations, You has borne them, says Jehovah.

[¶13] 59 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will also do to thee as you has done, Who has despised the oath and broken the covenant.

[¶14] 60 Yet I will remember my covenant with thee In the days of thy youth, and I will establish a perpetual covenant with thee.

[¶15] 61 Then you shall remember thy ways and be ashamed, When you shall receive thy sisters, both elder and younger than thyself; And I will give them unto thee for daughters, But not by thy covenant.

[¶16] 62 For I will establish my covenant with thee, And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

[¶17] 63 That you mayest remember and be ashamed, And not open thy mouth any more because of thy disgrace, When I am propitious to thee for all thy deeds, Says the Lord Jehovah.