Jeremiah 31:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Jeremiah 31:29 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Ezekiel 18:2-3
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? …
Jeremiah 31:30
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

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Babes Beating Beheading Birth Burning Capital Punishment Chastisement Children

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-34)

The prophet, having found his sleep sweet, made so by the revelations of divine grace, sets himself to sleep again, in hopes of further discoveries, and is not disappointed; for it is here further promised, I. That the people of God shall become both numerous and prosperous. Israel and Judah shall be replenished both with men and cattle, as if they were sown with the seed of both, Jer. 31:27. They…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

29. In those days--after their punishment has been completed, and mercy again visits them. fathers ... eaten ... sour grape ... children’s teeth ... on edge--the proverb among the exiles’ children born in Babylon, to express that they suffered the evil consequences of their fathers’ sins rather than of their own (La 5:7; Eze 18:2, 3).