Ezekiel 16:45
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Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.

that loatheth

Ezekiel 16:8,15,20,21 And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine. . . .

Ezekiel 23:37-39 Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,

Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Romans 1:30,31 Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, . . .

your mother

Ezekiel 16:3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.

Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
44Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter. 45Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.46And thy 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.…
Cross References
Numbers 21:5
And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

Isaiah 1:4
Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Ezekiel 23:2
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

Ezekiel 23:37
Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.

Zechariah 11:8
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Lexicon
You
אַ֔תְּ (’at)
Pronoun - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are the daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

of your mother,
אִמֵּ֣ךְ (’im·mêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

who despised
גֹּעֶ֥לֶת (gō·‘e·leṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1602: To detest, to reject

her husband
אִישָׁ֖הּ (’î·šāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and children.
וּבָנֶ֑יהָ (ū·ḇā·ne·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

You
אַ֗תְּ (’at)
Pronoun - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are the sister
וַאֲח֨וֹת (wa·’ă·ḥō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 269: Sister -- a sister

of your sisters,
אֲחוֹתֵ֜ךְ (’ă·ḥō·w·ṯêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 269: Sister -- a sister

who
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

despised
גָּֽעֲ֙לוּ֙ (gā·‘ă·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1602: To detest, to reject

their husbands
אַנְשֵׁיהֶ֣ן (’an·šê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind

and children.
וּבְנֵיהֶ֔ן (ū·ḇə·nê·hen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

Your mother
אִמְּכֶ֣ן (’im·mə·ḵen)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

was a Hittite
חִתִּ֔ית (ḥit·tîṯ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2850: Hittite -- a Chittite

and your father
וַאֲבִיכֶ֖ן (wa·’ă·ḇî·ḵen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

an Amorite.
אֱמֹרִֽי׃ (’ĕ·mō·rî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 567: Amorites -- perhaps 'mountain dwellers', a Canaanite tribe


Additional Translations
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

As is the mother, so is thy mother's daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite.

Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
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