Ezekiel 16:44 Parallel Translations

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

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Ezekiel 16:44 Cross References

XREF:

1 Samuel 24:13 "As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness'; but my hand shall not be against you.

Ezekiel 12:22 "Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The days are long and every vision fails '?

Ezekiel 12:23 "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will make this proverb cease so that they will no longer use it as a proverb in Israel." But tell them, "The days draw near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.

Ezekiel 18:2 "What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers eat the sour grapes, But the children's teeth are set on edge '?

Ezekiel 18:3 "As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, {x} [so is] her daughter.
(x) As the Canaanites, the Hittites and others were your predecessors, so are you their successors.

WES:

16:44 The mother - Old Jerusalem, when the seat of the Jebusites, or the land of Canaan, when full of the idolatrous, bloody, barbarous nations. Her daughter - Jerusalem, or the Jews who are more like those accursed nations in sin, than near them in place of abode.

MHC:

16:1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.

CONC:

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