Isaiah 45:10

In 11 translations

BSB

Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

KJV

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

WEB

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

ASV

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

LSV

Woe [to] him who is saying to a father, What do you beget? Or to a wife, What do you bring forth?”

YLT

Woe [to] him who is saying to a father, 'What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, 'What dost thou bring forth?

DBY

Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?

DRC

Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?

GNV

Woe vnto him that sayeth to his father, What hast thou begotten? or to his mother, What hast thou brought foorth?

JPS

Woe unto him that saith unto his father: 'Wherefore begettest thou?' Or to a woman: 'Wherefore travailest thou?'

LXXE

As though one should say to his father, What wilt thou beget me? and to his mother, What art thou bringing forth?

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Original-language editions

WLC

ה֛וֹי אֹמֵ֥ר לְאָ֖ב מַה־תּוֹלִ֑יד וּלְאִשָּׁ֖ה מַה־תְּחִילִֽין׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ λέγων τῷ πατρὶ, τί γεννήσεις; καὶ τῇ μητρί, τί ὠδίνεις;

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• Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask,…
• Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
• Hebrews 12:9Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

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