Jeremiah 31:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ In those days they shall no longer say: “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. [Ezek. 18:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

Common English Bible

²⁹ In those days, people will no longer say: Sour grapes eaten by parents leave a bitter taste in the mouths of their children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ In those days, they will no longer say: 'The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ 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.

Jeremiah 31:29 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.

Jeremiah 31:30

But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of the one who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

Lamentations 5:7

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

Deuteronomy 24:16

“Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.