Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 16:57

"before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that do despite unto thee round about." — Ezekiel 16:57 (ASV)

Thy reproach of the daughters of Syria— The pronoun should be omitted, and the phrase read, “the reproach.” The time referred to, when Jerusalem was too proud to mention Sodom, was in the days of her prosperity. Later her “wickedness was discovered,” and her pride humbled by such disasters as fell upon her, especially from the days of Ahaz onward.

At that time she was hard pressed both by the Syrians and by the Philistines (2 Kings 15:37; 2 Chronicles 28:18–19), and impoverished herself to obtain aid from Assyria (2 Kings 16:8); and such straits continued to mark her subsequent history. (See 2 Kings 24:2.) In the weakness and disasters towards the close of her kingdom, Judah became an object of contempt to the surrounding nations, “despised” by Syria and Philistia alike. Another view less probably refers “thy reproach” to Judah’s exultation at the fall of Syria and the Philistines before the march of the Assyrians.