Jeremiah 31:30
28 Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
29 “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.’
Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
- KJV
- But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- WEB
- But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
- ASV
- But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- DARBY
- for every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
- BLB
- But instead, each man will die by his iniquity; [for] every man eating the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
- ÅB
- Men enhver skal dø for sin egen misgjernings skyld; hvert menneske som spiser sure druer, han skal selv få såre tenner.
- OTB
- "I stedet skal hver person dø for sin egen synd; den som spiser sure druer—hans egne tenner skal settes på kant."
- B1930
- Men enhver skal dø for sin egen misgjernings skyld; hvert menneske som eter sure druer, han skal selv få såre tenner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 24:16
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Read in contextGalatians 6:5
For each one should carry his own load.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:4
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:18–19
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
Read in contextEzekiel 33:18
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Read in contextEzekiel 33:8
If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
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