43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me with all these things, behold, therefore I also have [a]brought thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord God: yet hast not thou had consideration of all thine abominations.

44 Behold, all that use proverbs, shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, [b]so is her daughter.

45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children, and thou art the sister of thy [c]sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children: your mother is an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:43 I have punished thy faults, but thou wouldest not repent.
  2. Ezekiel 16:44 As were the Canaanites, and the Hittites and others your predecessors, so are you their successors.
  3. Ezekiel 16:45 That is, of Samaria and Sodom.

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