³ they say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the pot, and we are the meat.’^(A)

⁴⁴ See, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”^(A)

⁴ and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died,^[a] all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!”^(A)