Ezekiel 16:52 meaning and explanation
So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 16:52, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
God, speaking through Ezekiel to Jerusalem, has just compared the city to her "sisters," Samaria to the north and Sodom to the south. Jerusalem's sins exceeded theirs, so that by comparison they "appear righteous." The Hebrew verb rendered "justification" carries the sense of pronouncing someone in the right, here only relatively: Jerusalem's greater guilt makes her sisters look better than they are.
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