“Your elder sister
Is Samaria.
She lived
With her daughters
To the north of you.
Your younger sister
Is Sodom.
She lived
With her daughters
To the south of you.
You not only
Followed their ways,
But you acted according
To their abominations.
Within a very little time
You were more corrupt
Than they
In all your ways.”
Jerusalem had an elder sister to the north with her children in Samaria. She also had a younger sister to the south with her children in Sodom. Samaria was the ruined people and capital of the old northern kingdom of Israel. Sodom was the place of infamy in Genesis. Not only did Jerusalem follow their terrible ways, she was even worse. She became more corrupt than they were.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 