2 (A)What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
(B)The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth (a)are set on edge’?
3 As I live,” declares the Lord (b)God, “you are surely not going to use this proverb in Israel anymore.

Footnotes:

a. Ezekiel 18:2: ['Lit ', become dull]
b. Ezekiel 18:3: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord, ', and so throughout the ch']