Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you,‘ Like mother, like daughter.’

“凡说俗语的必用俗语攻击你，说：‘母亲怎样，女儿也怎样。’

“看哪，凡说俗语的必用这俗语攻击你，说：‘有其母必有其女。’

“看哪，凡说俗语的必用这俗语攻击你，说：‘有其母必有其女。’

“‘好说俗语的人都会讥讽你说，有其母必有其女。

“‘凡引用俗语的，必用这俗语指着你说：有其母，必有其女。

「凡說俗語的必用俗語攻擊你，說：『母親怎樣，女兒也怎樣。』

「看哪，凡說俗語的必用這俗語攻擊你，說：『有其母必有其女。』

「看哪，凡說俗語的必用這俗語攻擊你，說：『有其母必有其女。』

「『好說俗語的人都會譏諷你說，有其母必有其女。

“‘凡引用俗語的，必用這俗語指著你說：有其母，必有其女。

看哪，凡說警語的總要用警語來挑飭你，說：『「母親怎樣，女兒也怎樣。」

凡用諺者、必以諺指爾曰、其母若何、女亦如之、

諺曰、女效母尤、後人必引此以指爾。

作諺者、必指爾作斯諺曰、女似其母、女似其母或作母如何女亦如何

“‘ Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you:“ Like mother, like daughter.”

“ All those who use proverbs will use this one about you. They will say,‘ Like mother, like daughter.’

“ Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you:‘ Like mother, like daughter.’

“‘ Look, everyone who uses proverbs will quote this proverb about you:“ Like mother, like daughter.”

“ Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying,‘ Like mother, like daughter.’

“ Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you:‘ Like mother, like daughter!’

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

“ Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you: Like mother, like daughter.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use[ this] proverb against thee, 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, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying,‘ As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

“ Why do you quote this proverb concerning the land of Israel:‘ The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children’s mouths pucker at the taste’?As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, you will not quote this proverb anymore in Israel.

As that old proverb says,‘ From evil people come evil deeds.’ So you can be sure I will never harm you.

For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Give her this message from the Sovereign Lord: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

When these things had been done, the Jewish leaders came to me and said,“ Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they despised all his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols, so they became worthless themselves. They followed the example of the nations around them, disobeying the Lord’s command not to imitate them.

But the people refused to listen, and Manasseh led them to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.

Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.They worshiped their idols, which led to their downfall.They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.

“ Son of man, you’ve heard that proverb they quote in Israel:‘ Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing.’

So Ahab immediately went down to the vineyard of Naboth to claim it.

They offered sacrifices on all the hilltops, just like the nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the Lord’s anger.