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Jeremiah 31:30

"But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Heredity;   Sin;   Thompson Chain Reference - Personal Responsibility;   Responsibility;   Stewardship-Ownership;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Vine, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Backsliding;   Building;   Disease;   Punishment;   Resurrection;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Death;   Guilt;   Human Free Will;   Jeremiah;   Teeth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Ethics;   Ezekiel;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Progress;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Avenger of blood;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Blood, Revenger of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Ezekiel;   Guilt;   Resurrection;   Salvation;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Right and Righteousness;   Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rather, each will die for his own iniquity. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.
Hebrew Names Version
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
King James Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
English Standard Version
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
New American Standard Bible
"But everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.
New Century Version
Instead, each person will die for his own sin; the person who eats sour grapes will grind his own teeth.
World English Bible
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie: euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shalbe set on edge.
Legacy Standard Bible
But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
Berean Standard Bible
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
Contemporary English Version
When that day comes, only those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste, and only those who sin will be put to death.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here, the days are coming," says Adonai, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra'el and with the house of Y'hudah.
Darby Translation
for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Easy-to-Read Version
No, people will die for their own sins. Those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste."
George Lamsa Translation
But every one shall die for his own sins; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Good News Translation
Instead, those who eat sour grapes will have their own teeth set on edge; and everyone will die because of their own sin."
Lexham English Bible
But each will die because of his iniquity, everyone who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge.
Literal Translation
But every man will die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for euery one shal dye for his owne my?dede, so that who so eateth a sower grape, his teth shalbe set on edge.
American Standard Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Bible in Basic English
But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
King James Version (1611)
But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie, euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For euery one shall dye for his owne misdeedes: so that who so eateth a sowre grape, his teeth shalbe set on edge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?
English Revised Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ech man that etith a sour grape, hise teeth schulen be astonyed.
Update Bible Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: any among man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Webster's Bible Translation
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
New English Translation
Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb.
New King James Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
New Living Translation
All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.
New Life Bible
But every one will die for his own sin. Each man who eats the sour grapes will get the sour taste.
New Revised Standard
But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, every one, for his own iniquity, shall die, - Any human being who eateth the sour grapes, his own teeth, shall be blunted.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Revised Standard Version
But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Young's Literal Translation
But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth.
THE MESSAGE
"No, each person will pay for his own sin. You eat green apples, you're the one who gets sick.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

Contextual Overview

27"Behold (listen carefully), the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. 28"It will be that as I have watched over them to uproot and to break down, to overthrow, destroy, and afflict with disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant [with good]," says the LORD. 29"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.' 30"But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.31"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) and with the house of Judah (the Southern Kingdom), 32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," says the LORD. 33"But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people. 34"And each man will no longer teach his neighbor and his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me [through personal experience], from the least of them to the greatest," says the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness, and I will no longer remember their sin."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:16, Isaiah 3:11, Ezekiel 3:18, Ezekiel 3:19, Ezekiel 3:24, Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 33:8, Ezekiel 33:13, Ezekiel 33:18, Galatians 6:5, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, James 1:15

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 25:4 - as it is written Jeremiah 31:29 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying: "Jacob has taken away everything that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has acquired all this wealth and honor."
Genesis 31:2
Jacob noticed [a change in] the attitude of Laban, and saw that it was not friendly toward him as before.
Genesis 31:6
"You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Genesis 31:19
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel [went inside the house and] stole her father's household gods.
Exodus 12:12
'For I [the LORD] will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal; against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments [exhibiting their worthlessness]. I am the LORD.
Numbers 33:4
while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the LORD had struck down among them. Upon their gods the LORD also executed judgments.
Judges 6:31
But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you plead for Baal? Will you save him? Whoever pleads for Baal shall be put to death while it is still morning. If Baal is a god, let him defend himself, because someone has torn down his altar."
Judges 18:24
He said, "You have taken away my gods which I have made, and the priest, and have gone away; what else do I have left? How can you say to me, 'What is your reason?'"
2 Samuel 5:21
The Philistines abandoned their [pagan] idols there, so David and his men took them away [to be burned].
Isaiah 37:19
and have cast the gods [of those peoples] into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But everyone shall die for his own iniquity,.... His own personal iniquity; and not a corporeal death only, but an eternal one, which is the just wages of sin. It seems to intimate, that, after the Babylonish captivity, no public calamity should come upon them for the sins of their fathers and their own jointly, but for their own iniquities singly; so their last destruction by the Romans was for their personal disbelief and rejection of the Messiah; see John 8:24; and the calamities upon them ever since have been for the same reason. Indeed, they imprecated his blood upon them, and upon their children, and so it is; but then, their children are under the power of the same sin of unbelief, and will remain so, until the veil is taken away, and they turn to the Lord; after which it will still be a more clear case that everyone shall die for his own iniquity;

every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge; sin, though it may be esteemed a sweet morsel, is a sour grape, and will prove so in the issue; and will give a man as much trouble and disquietude, when he is convinced of the evil of it, or suffers the punishment of it, as when a man's "teeth are set on edge"; and indeed the consequence of it will be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselves committed, and that God’s covenant depends not upon external sanctions, but upon a renewed heart.

Jeremiah 31:27

So rapid shall be the increase that it shall seem as if children and young cattle sprang up out of the ground.

Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30

A sour grape - Better, sour grapes. The idea that Jeremiah and Ezekiel (marginal reference) modified the terms of the second Commandment arises from a mistaken exegesis of their words. Compare Jeremiah 32:18; Deuteronomy 24:16. The obdurate Jews made it a reproach to the divine justice that the nation was to be sorely visited for Manasseh’s sin. But this was only because generation after generation had, instead of repenting, repeated the sins of that evil time, and even in a worse form. justice must at length have its course. The acknowledgment that each man died for his own iniquity was a sign of their return to a more just and right state of feeling.

Jeremiah 31:31

A time is foretold which shall be to the nation as marked an epoch as was the Exodus. God at Sinai made a covenant with His people, of which the sanctions were material, or (where spiritual) materially understood. Necessarily therefore the Mosaic Church was temporary, but the sanctions of Jeremiah’s Church are spiritual - written in the heart - and therefore it must take the place of the former covenant Hebrews 8:13, and must last forever. The prophecy was fulfilled when those Jews who accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, expanded the Jewish into the Christian Church.

Jeremiah 31:32

Although ... - i. e., although as their husband (or, “lord” (Baal, compare Hosea 2:16)) I had lawful authority over them. The translation in Hebrews 8:9 agrees with the Septuagint here, but the balance of authority is in favor of the King James Version.

Jeremiah 31:33

The old law could be broken Jeremiah 31:32; to remedy this God gives, not a new law, but a new power to the old law. It used to be a mere code of morals, external to man, and obeyed as a duty. In Christianity, it becomes an inner force, shaping man’s character from within.

Jeremiah 31:34

I will forgive their iniquity - The foundation of the new covenant is the free forgiveness of sins (compare Matthew 1:21). It is the sense of this full unmerited love which so affects the heart as to make obedience henceforward an inner necessity.


 
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