Jeremiah 31:29

Literal Standard Version

"In those days they no longer say: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, || And the sons' teeth are blunted.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“In those days, it will never again be said,

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

King James Version
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

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

New American Standard Bible
"In those days they will no longer say, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, But it is the children's teeth that have become blunt.'

New Century Version
"At that time people will no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and that caused the children to grind their teeth from the sour taste.'

Amplified Bible
"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
In those dayes shall they say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.

Legacy Standard Bible
"In those days they will not say again,‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Berean Standard Bible
"In those days, it will no longer be said: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and this has set the children's teeth on edge.'

Contemporary English Version
No longer will anyone go around saying, "Sour grapes eaten by parents leave a sour taste in the mouths of their children."

Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"People will not use this saying anymore: ‘The parents ate the sour grapes, but the children got the sour taste.'

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

Good News Translation
When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents ate the sour grapes, But the children got the sour taste.'

Lexham English Bible
"In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.'

Literal Translation
In those days they shall not any more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall it no more be sayde: ye fathers haue eaten a sower grape, and the childrens teth are set on edge:

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

Bible in Basic English
In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

King James Version (1611)
In those dayes they shall say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall it no more be sayde, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In tho daies thei schulen no more seie, The fadres eeten a sour grape, and the teeth of sones weren astonyed; but ech man schal die in his wickidnesse,

Update Bible Version
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are set on edge.

Webster's Bible Translation
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

New English Translation
"When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

New King James Version
In those days they shall say no more: "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

New Living Translation
"The people will no longer quote this proverb: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children's mouths pucker at the taste.'

New Life Bible
"In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children got the sour taste.'

New Revised Standard
In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In those days, shall they say no more, Fathers, did eat sour grapes, - And, children's teeth, are blunted!

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

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

Young's Literal Translation
In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

THE MESSAGE
"When that time comes you won't hear the old proverb anymore, Parents ate the green apples, their children got the stomachache.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Contextual Overview

²⁷"Behold, days are coming," || A declaration of YHWH, || "And I have sown the house of Israel, || And the house of Judah, || With seed of man and seed of beast. ²⁸And it has been, as I watched over them to pluck up, || And to break down, and to throw down, || And to destroy, and to afflict; So I watch over them to build, and to plant," || A declaration of YHWH. ²⁹"In those days they no longer say: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, || And the sons' teeth are blunted.³⁰But—each dies for his own iniquity, || Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, || His teeth are blunted. ³¹Behold, days are coming," || A declaration of YHWH, || "And I have made a new covenant || With the house of Israel || And with the house of Judah, ³²Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, || In the day of My laying hold on their hand, || To bring them out of the land of Egypt, || In that they made My covenant void, || And I ruled over them," || A declaration of YHWH. ³³"For this [is] the covenant that I make, || With the house of Israel, after those days," || A declaration of YHWH, || "I have given My law in their inward part, || And I write it on their heart, || And I have been their God, || And they are My people. ³⁴And they do not teach anymore || Each his neighbor, and each his brother, || Saying, Know YHWH, || For they all know Me, from their least to their greatest," || A declaration of YHWH; "For I pardon their iniquity, || And I make no more mention of their sin."

Bible Verse Review
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Jeremiah 31:30, Lamentations 5:7, Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - and also Deuteronomy 24:16 - General 2 Chronicles 25:4 - as it is written Ezekiel 18:20 - soul that

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
and behold, YHWH is standing on it, and He says, "I [am] YHWH, God of your father Abraham, and God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, to you I give it, and to your seed;

Genesis 31:2
and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.

Genesis 31:3
And YHWH says to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you."

Genesis 31:10
And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream, and behold, the male goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] striped, speckled, and spotted;

Genesis 31:11
and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I [am].

Genesis 31:24
And God comes to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night and says to him, "Take heed to yourself lest you speak with Jacob from good to evil."

Genesis 31:38
These twenty years I [am] with you: your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock I have not eaten;

Genesis 31:39
the torn I have not brought to you—I repay it—from my hand you seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

Genesis 31:42
unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now you had sent me away empty; God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and reproves last night."

Genesis 31:53
the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, judges between us—the God of their father," and Jacob swears by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days they shall say no more,.... The following proverb or byword; they should have no occasion to use it, nor should they choose to use it; since they would understand themselves, and the dispensations of Providence towards them, better than to use it:

the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge; that is, the fathers have sinned, and the children are punished for their sins. So the Targum,

"the fathers have sinned, and the children are smitten.''

This was in some sense true; they were punished for their fathers' sins in the captivity, particularly for Manasseh's; nor was it unusual with God to visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children; nor at all unjust, since they were a part of their parents, and especially since they were guilty of the same sins; nor is it thought unjust among men to punish children for the treason of their parents, as every sin is treason against God. But this was not all that was meant by this proverb; the sense of those that used it was, that they themselves were quite clear and innocent, and that they only suffered for their fathers' faults; which was false, of which they should be convinced, and use the proverb no more, as charging God with injustice.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:29. The fathers have eaten a sour grape — A proverbial expression for, "The children suffer for the offences of their parents." This is explained in the next verse: "Every one shall die for his own iniquity." No child shall suffer Divine punition for the sin of his father; only so far as he acts in the same way can he be said to bear the sins of his parents.