Jeremiah 31:29
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.'

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

New American Bible
In those days they shall no longer say, “The parents ate unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge,”

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Jeremiah 31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Lamentations 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Ezekiel 18:2,3 That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge. . . .

Context
Mourning Turned to Joy
28And as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to throw down, and to scatter, and destroy, and afflict: so will I watch over them, to build up, and to plant them, saith the Lord. 29In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.30But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin,

Job 21:19
God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.

Ezekiel 18:2
That you use among you this parable as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.

Jeremiah 31:28
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