Jeremiah 31:30

Complete Jewish Bible

"Here, the days are coming," says Adonai, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra'el and with the house of Y'hudah.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rather, each will die for his own iniquity. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge.

Hebrew Names Version
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

King James Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

English Standard Version
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

New American Standard Bible
"But everyone will die for his own wrongdoing; each person who eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will become blunt.

New Century Version
Instead, each person will die for his own sin; the person who eats sour grapes will grind his own teeth.

Amplified Bible
"But everyone will die [only] for his own wickedness; every man who eats sour grapes—his [own] teeth shall be set on edge.

World English Bible
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie: euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shalbe set on edge.

Legacy Standard Bible
But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

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

Contemporary English Version
When that day comes, only those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste, and only those who sin will be put to death.

Darby Translation
for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Easy-to-Read Version
No, people will die for their own sins. Those who eat sour grapes will get the sour taste."

George Lamsa Translation
But every one shall die for his own sins; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Good News Translation
Instead, those who eat sour grapes will have their own teeth set on edge; and everyone will die because of their own sin."

Lexham English Bible
But each will die because of his iniquity, everyone who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge.

Literal Translation
But every man will die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for euery one shal dye for his owne my?dede, so that who so eateth a sower grape, his teth shalbe set on edge.

American Standard Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Bible in Basic English
But everyone will be put to death for the evil which he himself has done: whoever has taken bitter grapes will himself have his teeth put on edge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;

King James Version (1611)
But euery one shall die for his owne iniquitie, euery man that eateth the sowre grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For euery one shall dye for his owne misdeedes: so that who so eateth a sowre grape, his teeth shalbe set on edge.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?

English Revised Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ech man that etith a sour grape, hise teeth schulen be astonyed.

Update Bible Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: any among man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Webster's Bible Translation
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

New English Translation
Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb.

New King James Version
But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

New Living Translation
All people will die for their own sins—those who eat the sour grapes will be the ones whose mouths will pucker.

New Life Bible
But every one will die for his own sin. Each man who eats the sour grapes will get the sour taste.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, every one, for his own iniquity, shall die, - Any human being who eateth the sour grapes, his own teeth, shall be blunted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Revised Standard Version
But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Young's Literal Translation
But -- each for his own iniquity doth die, Every man who is eating the unripe fruit, Blunted are his teeth.

THE MESSAGE
"No, each person will pay for his own sin. You eat green apples, you're the one who gets sick.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

Contextual Overview

²⁷ At that time, just as I used to watch over them with the intent to uproot, break down, overthrow, destroy and do harm; so then I will watch over them to build and plant," says Adonai . ²⁸ "When those days come they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.' ²⁹ Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge. ³⁰ "Here, the days are coming," says Adonai, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra'el and with the house of Y'hudah. ³¹ It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them," says Adonai . ³² "For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra'el after those days," says Adonai : "I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³³ No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai '; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more." ³⁴ This is what Adonai says, who gives the sun as light for the day, who ordained the laws for the moon and stars to provide light for the night, who stirs up the sea until its waves roar — Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:16, Isaiah 3:11, Ezekiel 3:18, Ezekiel 3:19, Ezekiel 3:24, Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 33:8, Ezekiel 33:13, Ezekiel 33:18, Galatians 6:5, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, James 1:15

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 25:4 - as it is written Jeremiah 31:29 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
But then he heard what Lavan's sons were saying: "Ya‘akov has taken away everything that our father once had. It's from what used to belong to our father that he has gotten so rich."

Genesis 31:2
He also saw that Lavan regarded him differently than before.

Genesis 31:6
You know that I have served your father with all my strength,

Genesis 31:19
Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, so Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father,

Exodus 12:12
For that night, I will pass through the land of Egypt and kill all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both men and animals; and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt; I am Adonai .

Numbers 33:4
while the Egyptians were burying those among them whom Adonai had killed, all their firstborn; Adonai had also executed judgment on their gods.

Judges 6:31
But Yo'ash said to all those crowding around him, "You're defending Ba‘al, are you? It's your job to save him? Anyone who defends Ba‘al will be put to death before morning! If he's a god, let him defend himself! After all, somebody destroyed his altar!"

Judges 18:24
He answered, "You've taken away my god, which I made, and gone off with the cohen! What more have I got? How can you ask me, ‘What's wrong with you?'"

2 Samuel 5:21
The P'lishtim had left their idols there, so David and his men took them away.

Isaiah 37:19
and have thrown their gods into the fire. For those were non-gods, merely the products of people's hands, wood and stone; this is why they could destroy them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But everyone shall die for his own iniquity,.... His own personal iniquity; and not a corporeal death only, but an eternal one, which is the just wages of sin. It seems to intimate, that, after the Babylonish captivity, no public calamity should come upon them for the sins of their fathers and their own jointly, but for their own iniquities singly; so their last destruction by the Romans was for their personal disbelief and rejection of the Messiah; see John 8:24; and the calamities upon them ever since have been for the same reason. Indeed, they imprecated his blood upon them, and upon their children, and so it is; but then, their children are under the power of the same sin of unbelief, and will remain so, until the veil is taken away, and they turn to the Lord; after which it will still be a more clear case that everyone shall die for his own iniquity;

every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge; sin, though it may be esteemed a sweet morsel, is a sour grape, and will prove so in the issue; and will give a man as much trouble and disquietude, when he is convinced of the evil of it, or suffers the punishment of it, as when a man's "teeth are set on edge"; and indeed the consequence of it will be weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselves committed, and that God’s covenant depends not upon external sanctions, but upon a renewed heart.

Jeremiah 31:27

So rapid shall be the increase that it shall seem as if children and young cattle sprang up out of the ground.

Jeremiah 31:29, Jeremiah 31:30

A sour grape - Better, sour grapes. The idea that Jeremiah and Ezekiel (marginal reference) modified the terms of the second Commandment arises from a mistaken exegesis of their words. Compare Jeremiah 32:18; Deuteronomy 24:16. The obdurate Jews made it a reproach to the divine justice that the nation was to be sorely visited for Manasseh’s sin. But this was only because generation after generation had, instead of repenting, repeated the sins of that evil time, and even in a worse form. justice must at length have its course. The acknowledgment that each man died for his own iniquity was a sign of their return to a more just and right state of feeling.

Jeremiah 31:31

A time is foretold which shall be to the nation as marked an epoch as was the Exodus. God at Sinai made a covenant with His people, of which the sanctions were material, or (where spiritual) materially understood. Necessarily therefore the Mosaic Church was temporary, but the sanctions of Jeremiah’s Church are spiritual - written in the heart - and therefore it must take the place of the former covenant Hebrews 8:13, and must last forever. The prophecy was fulfilled when those Jews who accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, expanded the Jewish into the Christian Church.

Jeremiah 31:32

Although ... - i. e., although as their husband (or, “lord” (Baal, compare Hosea 2:16)) I had lawful authority over them. The translation in Hebrews 8:9 agrees with the Septuagint here, but the balance of authority is in favor of the King James Version.

Jeremiah 31:33

The old law could be broken Jeremiah 31:32; to remedy this God gives, not a new law, but a new power to the old law. It used to be a mere code of morals, external to man, and obeyed as a duty. In Christianity, it becomes an inner force, shaping man’s character from within.

Jeremiah 31:34

I will forgive their iniquity - The foundation of the new covenant is the free forgiveness of sins (compare Matthew 1:21). It is the sense of this full unmerited love which so affects the heart as to make obedience henceforward an inner necessity.