Ezekiel 16:44
Ezekiel chapter 16 · verse 44 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Context
v.43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.
v.44This passage
v.45Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 18:2
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?
- 2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
- 2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.
- Ezra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
- Ezekiel 16:3
and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
- Psalms 106:35
But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,