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The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:29

In 10 translations

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.’
KJV
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
WEB
“In those days they will say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
ASV
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
LSV
“In those days they no longer say: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, || And the sons’ teeth are blunted.
YLT
In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.
DBY
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:
DRC
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.
GNV
In those dayes shall they say no more, The fathers haue eaten a sowre grape, and the childrens teeth are set on edge.
JPS
In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

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Original-language editions

WLC
בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם לֹא־יֹאמְר֣וּ ע֔וֹד אָב֖וֹת אָ֣כְלוּ בֹ֑סֶר וְשִׁנֵּ֥י בָנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Lamentations 5:7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
  • Ezekiel 18:2–3“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’? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no…
  • Jeremiah 31:30Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

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  • 38:29 in some Bibles

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