42 So will I make my wrath toward thee to rest, and my [a]jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease, and be no more angry.

43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me with all these things, behold, therefore I also have [b]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, [c]so is her daughter.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 16:42 I will utterly destroy thee, and so my jealousy shall cease.
  2. Ezekiel 16:43 I have punished thy faults, but thou wouldest not repent.
  3. Ezekiel 16:44 As were the Canaanites, and the Hittites and others your predecessors, so are you their successors.

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