Jeremiah 31:29

Christian Standard Bible ®

“In those days, it will never again be said,

Parallel Translations

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

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

English Standard Version
In those days they shall no longer say: "‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

New American Standard Bible
"In those days they will no longer say, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, But it is the children's teeth that have become blunt.'

New Century Version
"At that time people will no longer say: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and that caused the children to grind their teeth from the sour taste.'

Amplified Bible
"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
In those dayes shall they say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.

Legacy Standard Bible
"In those days they will not say again,‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Berean Standard Bible
"In those days, it will no longer be said: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and this has set the children's teeth on edge.'

Contemporary English Version
No longer will anyone go around saying, "Sour grapes eaten by parents leave a sour taste in the mouths of their children."

Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, each will die for his own sin; every one who eats sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

Darby Translation
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:

Easy-to-Read Version
"People will not use this saying anymore: ‘The parents ate the sour grapes, but the children got the sour taste.'

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

Good News Translation
When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents ate the sour grapes, But the children got the sour taste.'

Lexham English Bible
"In those days they will say no longer, ‘Parents have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.'

Literal Translation
In those days they shall not any more say, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall it no more be sayde: ye fathers haue eaten a sower grape, and the childrens teth are set on edge:

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

Bible in Basic English
In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

King James Version (1611)
In those dayes they shall say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall it no more be sayde, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In tho daies thei schulen no more seie, The fadres eeten a sour grape, and the teeth of sones weren astonyed; but ech man schal die in his wickidnesse,

Update Bible Version
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are set on edge.

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

New English Translation
"When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

New King James Version
In those days they shall say no more: "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

New Living Translation
"The people will no longer quote this proverb: ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but their children's mouths pucker at the taste.'

New Life Bible
"In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children got the sour taste.'

New Revised Standard
In those days they shall no longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In those days, shall they say no more, Fathers, did eat sour grapes, - And, children's teeth, are blunted!

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Revised Standard Version
In those days they shall no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Young's Literal Translation
In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

THE MESSAGE
"When that time comes you won't hear the old proverb anymore, Parents ate the green apples, their children got the stomachache.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"In those days they will not say again, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.'

Contextual Overview

²⁷“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and the seed of animals. ²⁸Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear them down, to demolish and to destroy, and to cause disaster, so will I watch over them to build and to plant them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. ²⁹“In those days, it will never again be said,³⁰Rather, each will die for his own iniquity. Anyone who eats sour grapes—his own teeth will be set on edge. ³¹“Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³²This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”—the Lord’s declaration. ³³“Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 31:30, Lamentations 5:7, Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - and also Deuteronomy 24:16 - General 2 Chronicles 25:4 - as it is written Ezekiel 18:20 - soul that

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
The Lord was standing there beside him, saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same as before.

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”

Genesis 31:10
“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Genesis 31:11
In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Genesis 31:24
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:38
I’ve been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock.

Genesis 31:39
I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.

Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and he issued his verdict last night.”

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor—the gods of their father—will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days they shall say no more,.... The following proverb or byword; they should have no occasion to use it, nor should they choose to use it; since they would understand themselves, and the dispensations of Providence towards them, better than to use it:

the fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge; that is, the fathers have sinned, and the children are punished for their sins. So the Targum,

"the fathers have sinned, and the children are smitten.''

This was in some sense true; they were punished for their fathers' sins in the captivity, particularly for Manasseh's; nor was it unusual with God to visit the iniquities of the fathers upon the children; nor at all unjust, since they were a part of their parents, and especially since they were guilty of the same sins; nor is it thought unjust among men to punish children for the treason of their parents, as every sin is treason against God. But this was not all that was meant by this proverb; the sense of those that used it was, that they themselves were quite clear and innocent, and that they only suffered for their fathers' faults; which was false, of which they should be convinced, and use the proverb no more, as charging God with injustice.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 31:29. The fathers have eaten a sour grape — A proverbial expression for, "The children suffer for the offences of their parents." This is explained in the next verse: "Every one shall die for his own iniquity." No child shall suffer Divine punition for the sin of his father; only so far as he acts in the same way can he be said to bear the sins of his parents.