“What do you[a] mean (A)by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, (B)‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:2 The Hebrew for you is plural

Our fathers sinned, and are no more;
    (A)and we bear their iniquities.

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29 In those days they shall no longer say:

(A)“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
    and the children's teeth are set on edge.’

30 (B)But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

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19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take (A)the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the (B)stick of Judah,[a] and (C)make them one stick, (D)that they may be one in my hand.

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  1. Ezekiel 37:19 Hebrew And I will place them on it, the stick of Judah

25 (A)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there (B)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince (C)forever.

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11 Then he said to me, (A)“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and (B)our hope is lost; (C)we are indeed cut off.’

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12 “Say now to (A)the rebellious house, (B)Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, (C)the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.

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15 What do you mean by (A)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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20 But who are you, O man, (A)to answer back to God? (B)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”

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36 Truly, I say to you, (A)all these things will come upon this generation.

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Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: (A)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, (B)‘Aha!’ over my (C)sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

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(A)“Son of man, (B)set your face toward (C)the mountains of Israel, and (D)prophesy against them, and say, (E)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to (F)the mountains and (G)the hills, to (H)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, (I)and I will destroy your high places.

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(A)And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what (B)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

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“And you, (A)O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: (B)An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:2 Or earth

Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel

36 “And you, (A)son of man, prophesy to (B)the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because (C)the enemy said of you, (D)‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient (E)heights have become our possession,’ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because (F)they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and (G)you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to (H)the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, (I)the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become (J)a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have spoken in (K)my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and (L)against all Edom, who (M)gave my land to themselves as a possession (N)with wholehearted joy and (O)utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to (P)the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord God: (Q)Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered (R)the reproach of the nations.

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