Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.
New American Standard Bible
“Behold, everyone who quotes
King James Version
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Holman Bible
“Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you:
International Standard Version
"Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, "Like mother, like daughter.'
A Conservative Version
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, 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.
Amplified
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Darby Translation
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, all using parables will use a parable against thee, saying, As the mother, the daughter.
King James 2000
Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, {saying}, 'Like her mother [is] her daughter!'
Modern King James verseion
Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"'Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
NET Bible
"'Observe -- everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter."
New Heart English Bible
"'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, so is her daughter."
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! every one who useth proverbs, against thee, shall use a proverb saying, - Like the mother, so her daughter!
Webster
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 shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 16:44
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel
43 Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts. 44 See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter. 45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:2-3
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
1 Kings 21:16
So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.
2 Kings 17:11
Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.
2 Kings 21:9
But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
Ezra 9:1
Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Psalm 106:35-38
But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
Ezekiel 12:22
Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?
Ezekiel 16:3
And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.