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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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 38:29 in some Bibles