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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?

What mean ye, that ye use {H4911} this proverb {H4912} concerning the land {H127} of Israel {H3478}, saying {H559}, The fathers {H1} have eaten {H398} sour grapes {H1155}, and the children's {H1121} teeth {H8127} are set on edge {H6949}?

"What does it mean, that you keep quoting this proverb in the land of Isra'el 'When parents eat sour grapes, their children's teeth are set on edge'?

“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’?

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?

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 5:7 (12 votes)

    Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Jeremiah 31:29 (11 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 31:30 (11 votes)

    But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

  • Ezekiel 37:19 (5 votes)

    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 of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

  • Isaiah 3:15 (4 votes)

    What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

  • Ezekiel 17:12 (4 votes)

    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 with him to Babylon;

  • Ezekiel 37:25 (4 votes)

    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 for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.