Ezekiel 18:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

"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.'

Cross References

Job 21:19

God will preserve the grief of the father for his sons, and, when he repays, then he will understand.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you wear down my people, and grind up the faces of the poor, says the Lord, the God of hosts?

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will give them over to the fervor of all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of all that he did in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

Ezekiel 12:22

"Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: 'The days shall be extended in length, and every vision shall perish.'

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, all who speak a common proverb will take this up against you, saying: 'Like the mother, so also is her daughter.'

Ezekiel 17:12

"Say to the provoking house: Do you not know what these things signify? Say: Behold, the king of Babylon arrives in Jerusalem. And he will take away its king and princes, and he will lead them away to himself in Babylon.

Ezekiel 18:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 18:19

And you say, 'Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father?' Clearly, since the son has worked judgment and justice, has observed all my precepts, and has done them, he shall certainly live.

Ezekiel 18:3

As I live, says the Lord God, this parable shall no longer be a proverb for you in Israel.

Ezekiel 25:3

And you shall say to the sons of Ammon: Listen to the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God: Because you have said, 'Well, well!' over my sanctuary, when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel, when it was desolated, and over the house of Judah, when they were led into captivity,

Ezekiel 37:11

And he said to me: "Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel. They say: 'Our bones are dried out, and our hope has perished, and we have been cut off.'

Ezekiel 37:19

you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take up the wood of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, which are joined to him, and I will put them together with the wood of Judah, and I will make them one piece of wood. And they will be one in his hand.

Ezekiel 37:25

And they shall live upon the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived. And they shall live upon it, they and their sons, and the sons of their sons, even for all time. And David, my servant, shall be their leader, in perpetuity.

Ezekiel 7:2

"And as for you, son of man: Thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is coming, the end is coming, over the four regions of the earth.

Matthew 23:36

Amen I say to you, all these things shall fall upon this generation.

Romans 9:20

O man, who are you to question God? How can the thing that has been formed say to the One who formed him: "Why have you made me this way?"