“In those days they will say no more,
“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 31:29 in context
Jeremiah 31:26–32
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On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
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It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says the LORD.
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“In those days they will say no more,
“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
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But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
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“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.
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