King James Version
"Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter."
— Ezekiel 16:44, King James Version
“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 shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.