Catholic Public Domain Version
"Behold, all who speak a common proverb will take this up against you, saying: ‘Like the mother, so also is her daughter.’ "
— Ezekiel 16:44, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ”
“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
““‘Observe– everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you:“Like mother, like daughter.””
“Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.”
“See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.”
“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
And they will burn up your houses with fire, and they will carry out judgments against you in the sight of many women. And you will cease from fornication, and no longer give payment.
And my indignation will be quieted in you. And my zeal will be taken from you. And I will rest, and no longer be angry.
For you have not remembered the days of your youth, and you have provoked me in all these things. Because of this, I also have delivered all your ways upon your head, says the Lord God, but I have not acted in accord with your wickedness in all your abominations.
Behold, all who speak a common proverb will take this up against you, saying: ‘Like the mother, so also is her daughter.’
You are your mother’s daughter, for she cast away her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, for they cast away their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Cethite, and your father was an Amorite.
And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters are those who live to your left. But your younger sister, who lives to your right, is Sodom and her daughters.
But neither have you walked in their ways. For you have done only a little less compared to their wickedness. You have acted almost more wickedly, in all your ways, than they have acted.