Ezekiel 18:2 ““What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Isr…”

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

What meane ye that ye speake this prouerbe, concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers haue eaten sowre grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge?

Darby Translation

What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of Israel, saying, [The] fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Young's Literal Translation

'What — to you, ye — using this simile Concerning the ground of Israel, saying: Fathers do eat unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted?

Bible in Basic English

Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

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Cross references

“mean”

Ezekiel 17:12 Isaiah 3:15 Romans 9:20

Ezekiel 17:12 · BSB

“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

Isaiah 3:15 · BSB

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Romans 9:20 · BSB

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

“the land”

Ezekiel 37:11 Ezekiel 37:19 Ezekiel 37:25 Ezekiel 25:3 Ezekiel 7:2 Ezekiel 36:1–6

Ezekiel 37:11 · BSB

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Ezekiel 37:19 · BSB

you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Ju…

Ezekiel 37:25 · BSB

They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 25:3 · BSB

Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah…

Ezekiel 7:2 · BSB

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 36:1–6 · BSB

“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

“The fathers”

Lamentations 5:7 Jeremiah 15:4 Matthew 23:36 Jeremiah 31:29 Jeremiah 31:30

Lamentations 5:7 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 15:4 · BSB

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

Matthew 23:36 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 31:29 · BSB

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

Jeremiah 31:30 · BSB

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

3As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

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