Ezekiel 18:2
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
KJV
Quid est quod inter vos parabolam vertitis in proverbium istud in terra Israël, dicentes : Patres comederunt uvam acerbam, et dentes filiorum obstupescunt ?
Vulgate
Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, τί ὑμῖν ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἰσραήλ, λέγοντες Οἱ πατέρες ἔφαγον ὄμφακα, καὶ οἱ ὀδόντες τῶν τέκνων ἐγομφίασαν;
LXX
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
ASV
מַה לָּ/כֶ֗ם אַתֶּם֙ מֹֽשְׁלִים֙ אֶת הַ/מָּשָׁ֣ל הַ/זֶּ֔ה עַל אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵ/אמֹ֑ר אָבוֹת֙ יֹ֣אכְלוּ בֹ֔סֶר וְ/שִׁנֵּ֥י הַ/בָּנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Ezek 6:2 — Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
- Ezek 12:22 — Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
- Ezek 16:44 — Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Ezek 17:12 — Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them
- Ezek 18:19 — Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
- Ezek 25:3 — And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was de
- Ezek 37:11 — Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
- Ezek 37:19 — Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick
- Ezek 37:25 — And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children fo
- Isa 3:15 — What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- Jer 15:4 — And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
- Jer 31:29 — In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
- Jer 31:29 — In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
- Job 21:19 — God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- Job 40:2 — Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
- Lam 5:7 — Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- Lam 5:7 — Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
- Matt 23:36 — Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
- Rom 9:20 — Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?