And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
A clearer explanation of the former doctrine now follows, that the Jews, should thus feel God merciful when his mercy reached Samaria and Sodom; but that never could be done, and hence the Jews were reduced to despair; for, as I have said, the Prophet argues from what is impossible and almost absurd.
Jerusalem was her mother's own child: as the Canaanites loathed their husbands and children, so she forsook the Lord and was barbarous to her own. She learned their way, trod in their steps, and loved their idols as eagerly as they did, the like mother, like daughter, not in name alone but in corruption.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 16:44-59
For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth,.... Or, "was not for a hearing", or "a report, in thy mouth" (g); the destruction of Sodom, though it was such an awful judgment of God, so flagrant and notorious, was visible and just at hand; yet it was not taken notice of, nor talked of; it was not the subject of conversation among friends...