Ezekiel 18:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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 Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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?

Common English Bible

² What do you mean by this proverb of yours about the land of Israel: “When parents eat unripe grapes, the children’s teeth suffer”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the children are set on edge?

Ezekiel 18:2 Cross References

Job 21:19

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what King Manasseh son of Hezekiah of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned; they are no more, and we bear their iniquities.

Ezekiel 12:22

Mortal, what is this proverb of yours about the land of Israel that says, “The days are prolonged, and every vision comes to nothing”?

Ezekiel 16:44

See, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 17:12

Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and its officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 18:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:3

As I live, says the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God: Because you said, “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was profaned and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate and over the house of Judah when it went into exile,

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

Ezekiel 37:19

say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with it, and I will put the stick of Judah upon it and make them one stick, in order that they may be one in my hand.”

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 7:2

You, O mortal, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?”