Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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:

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.’

Bible in Basic English

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, 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!

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 16

משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 16

As is the mother
אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

God's Covenant Grace To Unfaithful And Rebellious Israel

43 Because you didn't remember the time when you were young, but instead you provoked me to anger because of all these things, watch out! I'm going to bring your behavior back to haunt you!" declares the Lord GOD. "Didn't you do this wicked thing, in addition to all your other detestable practices?" 44 "Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, "Like mother, like daughter.' 45 You're the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You're the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children.

Cross References

Ezekiel 18:2-3

"Why do you cite this proverb when you talk about Israel's land: "The fathers eat sour grapes but it's their children's teeth that have become numb.'

1 Samuel 24:13

Just like the ancient proverb says, "From wicked people comes wickedness,' but I'm not against you.

1 Kings 21:16

So once he heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab got up, went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and confiscated it.

2 Kings 17:11

where they made offerings on all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD had expelled before them. They also practiced other wickedness, provoking the LORD to become angry,

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected the LORD's statutes, the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and his warnings that he gave them. They pursued meaninglessness and became meaningless themselves as they followed the lifestyles of the nations that surrounded them, a practice that the LORD had warned them not to do.

2 Kings 21:9

But they would not listen. Manasseh led them astray to practice more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed in the presence of the Israelis.

Ezra 9:1

After these things occurred, certain officials approached me and said "The people of Israel, the priests, and the descendants of Levi have not separated themselves from the people of the lands or from the detestable behavior of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites,

Psalm 106:35-38

Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.

Ezekiel 12:22

"Son of Man, what's this proverb you have concerning Israel's land that says, "The days pass slowly and every vision ends in nothing.'?

Ezekiel 16:3

You are to declare, "This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: "Your birth place was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:45

You're the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You're the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children.

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