Ezekiel 16:44

In 11 translations

BSB

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

KJV

¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

WEB

“‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

ASV

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

LSV

Behold, everyone using the allegory against you, || Uses [this] allegory concerning [you], saying, || As the mother—her daughter!

YLT

Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother — her daughter!

DBY

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, [so is] her daughter!

DRC

Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.

GNV

Beholde, all that vse prouerbes, shall vse this prouerbe against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

JPS

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.

LXXE

These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb, saying,

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WLC

הִנֵּה֙ כָּל־הַמֹּשֵׁ֔ל עָלַ֥יִךְ יִמְשֹׁ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּאִמָּ֖ה בִּתָּֽהּ׃

LXX-Br

Ταῦτά ἐστι πάντα ὅσα εἶπαν κατὰ σοῦ ἐν παραβολῇ, λέγοντες, καθὼς ἡ μήτηρ,

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• Ezekiel 18:2–3“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no…
• Psalms 106:35–38but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. They shed innocent blood— the blood of…
• 1 Samuel 24:13As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
• Ezekiel 16:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
• Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations…
• 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations…
• 1 Kings 21:16And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
• 2 Kings 21:9But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
• 2 Kings 17:11They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
• Ezekiel 16:45You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
• Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

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