Ezekiel 16:44 “Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘…”

Ezekiel 16:44

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

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Cross references

“every”

1 Samuel 24:13 Ezekiel 18:2 Ezekiel 18:3

1 Samuel 24:13 · BSB

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

Ezekiel 18:2 · BSB

“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’?

Ezekiel 18:3 · BSB

As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

“As is”

Psalm 106:35–38 Ezekiel 16:3 Ezra 9:1 Ezekiel 16:45 1 Kings 21:16 2 Kings 17:11

Psalm 106:35–38 · BSB

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Ezekiel 16:3 · BSB

and 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 9:1 · BSB

After 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 ar…

Ezekiel 16:45 · BSB

You 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.

1 Kings 21:16 · BSB

And 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 17:11 · BSB

They 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.

Also

Ezekiel 12:22

Ezekiel 12:22 · BSB

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

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.

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