Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
"'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, 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.’
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."
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 remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,' says the Lord GOD: 'and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations. 44 "'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, so is her daughter." 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Cross References
Ezekiel 18:2-3
"What do you mean, that you 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 the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.
1 Kings 21:16
It happened, 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
and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger;
2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 21:9
But they did not listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were completed, the leaders approached me and said, "The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Psalm 106:35-38
but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
Ezekiel 12:22
"Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?'
Ezekiel 16:3
and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.