Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted?
New American Standard Bible
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But the children’s teeth
King James Version
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Holman Bible
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
International Standard Version
"Why do you cite this proverb when you talk about Israel's land: "The fathers eat sour grapes but it's their children's teeth that have become numb.'
A Conservative Version
What do ye mean, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the son's teeth are set on edge?
American Standard Version
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Amplified
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
Bible in Basic English
Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?
Darby Translation
What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of Israel, saying, The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
King James 2000
What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{What do you mean by} quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, {saying}, 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.'
Modern King James verseion
What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"What mean ye by this common proverb, that ye use in the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
NET Bible
"What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, "'The fathers eat sour grapes And the children's teeth become numb?'
New Heart English Bible
"What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?'
The Emphasized Bible
What occasion have ye, to be using this proverb, concerning the so of Israel, saying, - Fathers eat sour grapes, And the children's teeth are blunted?
Webster
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
World English Bible
What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Youngs Literal Translation
What -- to you, ye -- using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?
Themes
Children » Not punished for parents' sake
Execution » Who should not be executed according to the law
natural Fruit » Varieties of » Grapes
Grape » Figurative » Proverb of
Heredity » General references to
Parent's sins » Visited upon children » General references to
Topics
Interlinear
Mashal
'ab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 18:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Just Treatment Of Individuals, Both Righteous And Wicked
1 And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, 2 What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted? 3 I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if it shall be to you more to use this parable in Israel.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:15
Why will ye crush my people and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord Jehovah of armies.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, they are not; we bore their iniquities.
Jeremiah 31:29-30
In those days they shall no more say, The fathers ate sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted.
Jeremiah 15:4
And I gave them for maltreatment to all the kingdoms because of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 6:2-3
Son of man, set thy face to the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezekiel 7:2
And thou son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end, the end came upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the house of contradiction, Knew ye not what are these? Say, Behold, the king of Babel coming to Jerusalem, and he will take her king and her chiefs, and bring them to him into Babel.
Ezekiel 25:3
And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear ye, the word of the Lord Jehovah, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy saying, Aha! to my holy place, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and to the house of Judah, when they went into captivity.
Ezekiel 36:1-6
And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezekiel 37:11
And he will say to me, Son of man, these bones all the house of Israel: behold them saying, Our bones were dried up, and our hope perished, and we were cut off to us.
Ezekiel 37:19
Speak to them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold I take the tree of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his company, and I gave them upon him with the tree of Judah, and ye made them for one tree, and they were one in my hand.
Ezekiel 37:25
And they shall dwell upon the land which I gave to my servant to Jacob which your fathers dwelt upon it, and they shall dwell upon it, they and their sons and their sons' sons, even to forever: and David my servant a prince to them forever.
Matthew 23:36
Truly I say to you, All these shall come upon this generation.
Romans 9:20
Surely, O man, who art thou replying against God? Shall the formation say to him having formed, Why hest thou made me so