Ezekiel 18:2

Modern English Version

What do you mean in using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Cross References

Job 21:19

God stores up their iniquity for their children; let Him reward the people themselves, and they will 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, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me,

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their iniquities.

Ezekiel 12:22

Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have in the land of Israel, saying, “The days are prolonged, and every vision fails”?

Ezekiel 16:44

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 17:12

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

Ezekiel 18:1

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying:

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should the son not bear the punishment of the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:3

As I live, says the Lord God, you shall not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel.

Ezekiel 25:3

and say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God: Because you said, “Aha!” against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, 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: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick; and they shall be one in My hand.

Ezekiel 37:25

They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived. And they shall dwell in it, they and their sons and their son’s sons forever. And My servant David shall be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 7:2

And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end, the end is coming upon the four corners of the land.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I say to you, all these things will come on this generation.

Romans 9:20

Rather, O man, who are you to answer back to God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”