In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
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Lamentations 5:7 · 12 connections
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And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
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?
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. …
End of linked passage: Matthew 23:36And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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