Jeremiah 31:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

In those days they shall no longer say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

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  • Lam 5:7 : 7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.
  • Ezek 18:2-3 : 2 What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’? 3 As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer have occasion to use this proverb in Israel.
  • Jer 31:30 : 30 But everyone shall die for his own sin: every man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

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  • Jer 31:30-31
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    30 But everyone shall die for his own sin: every man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

    31 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

  • Ezek 18:1-3
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    1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

    2 What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

    3 As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall no longer have occasion to use this proverb in Israel.

  • 28 And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.

  • 16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

  • 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • 39 And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.

  • 29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.

  • 21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • 10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in your midst, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you I will scatter into all the winds.

  • 14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says the LORD: I will have no pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

  • 13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • 21 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

  • 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 22 So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;

  • 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given unto another people, and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no strength in your hand.

  • 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4 And I will make youths their princes, and children shall rule over them.

    5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.

  • 31 Behold, the days are coming, that I will cut off your strength, and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

  • Joel 1:3-4
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    3 Tell your children about it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

    4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • 6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • 17 And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.

  • 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

  • 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • 18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did what is not good among his people, behold, even he shall die in his iniquity.

  • 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  • 20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

  • 3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family I devise an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily, for this time is evil.

  • 8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yes, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • 3 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who begot them in this land:

  • 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

  • 8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 17 And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.

  • 14 Now, if he begets a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers and does not do such like,

  • 9 Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

  • 7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

  • 50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:

  • 13 Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • 39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • 5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • 12 Thus says the LORD: Though they be at peace and likewise many, yet they shall be cut down when he passes through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

  • 10 And it shall come to pass, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

  • 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.