Ezekiel 16:44
New International Version
“’Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

New Living Translation
Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

English Standard Version
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

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

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

New King James Version
“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

NASB 1995
“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

NASB 1977
“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Legacy Standard Bible
“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Amplified Bible
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Christian Standard Bible
“ ‘Look, everyone who uses proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you: Like mother, like 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And everyone who speaks a parable will speak a parable about you, and the daughter will speak as her mother

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

Contemporary English Version
People will use this saying about you, Jerusalem: "If the mother is bad, so is her daughter."

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
" 'Everyone who uses proverbs will speak the following saying against you: Like mother, like daughter.

Good News Translation
The LORD said, "People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

International Standard Version
"Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, 'Like mother, like daughter.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.

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

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

New American Bible
See, everyone who makes proverbs will make this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

NET Bible
"'Observe--everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."

New Revised Standard Version
See, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

New Heart English Bible
"'Look, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, so is her daughter."

Webster's Bible Translation
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.’

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter!

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
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? 44Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 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.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 24:13
As the old proverb says, 'Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.' But my hand will never be against you.

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'?

Ezekiel 12:23
Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.' But say to them: 'The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.

Ezekiel 18:2
"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
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.


Treasury of Scripture

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

every

Ezekiel 18:2,3
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? …

1 Samuel 24:13
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

As is

Ezekiel 16:3,45
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite…

1 Kings 21:16
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

2 Kings 17:11,15
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: …

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
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(44) As is the mother.--The sin of the people had become so notorious as to attract general attention, and lead to the application of this proverb. The nativity of Israel described in Ezekiel 16:3 is here in mind, and the proverb becomes equivalent to saying, these sins belong to every people living in Canaan; once practised by the Amorites and Hittites, they are now continued by the Israelites.

Verse 44. - Every one that speaketh proverbs, etc. As in Ezekiel 18:2, we have an example of the tendency of the Eastern mind to condense the experience of life into the form of proverbial sayings. Here the proverb expresses what we call the doctrine of heredite. We say, in such cases, "Like father, like son;" but the feeling of the East recognized, especially in the case of daughters, that the mother's influence was predominant.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Behold,
הִנֵּה֙ (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

everyone
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who quotes proverbs
הַמֹּשֵׁ֔ל (ham·mō·šêl)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

will recite this proverb
יִמְשֹׁ֖ל (yim·šōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4911: To liken, to use, language, in, to resemble

about you:
עָלַ֥יִךְ (‘ā·la·yiḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

“Like mother,
כְּאִמָּ֖ה (kə·’im·māh)
Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 517: A mother, )

like daughter.”
בִּתָּֽהּ׃ (bit·tāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1323: A daughter


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