Jeremiah 31:30
in Jeremiah 31Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.
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ASV
But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
KJV
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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This verse in Jeremiah 31
Commentary
7 notes on this verseMountains are convenient for vineyards, being free from shades and exposed to the sun. Shall plant - God promises them a liberty to plant, and that they should enjoy their plantations, eating them as common things, which they could not do 'till the fifth year. Arise - This was fulfilled under the gospel; for both Galilee and Samaria received the gospel.
This site's exposition
This is what the LORD of
on Jeremiah 31:23-30
The prophet's one comment on the vision is his own: “My sleep had been most pleasant to me.” The watching of 1:12 returns reversed, “so I will watch over them to build and to plant.” The sour-grape proverb is repealed: “each will die for his own iniquity.”
This site's exposition
each will die for his own iniquity
Under the new order each person answers for his own sin. Adam Clarke, on the verse before, adds that a child bears a parent's guilt only by walking in the same ways. The new covenant that follows is personal in the same way, with each one knowing the Lord.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
In the mean time, whom will you be able to persuade that by receiving the lapsed the whole Church hath perished? That by the admission of penitents, the people of those who admit them has been made a denier of the Faith? But even if …
It is similarly impossible, he says, for children to be called to account for ancestral sins, because I promise to children the greatest blessings even when their parents sin.
(Verses 29-30) In those days, they shall no longer say, 'The fathers ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge,' but each one shall die for his own iniquity. Every person who eats a sour grape, their teeth will be stunned.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
But everyone shall die for his own iniquity,.... His own personal iniquity; and not a corporeal death only, but an eternal one, which is the just wages of sin. It seems to intimate, that, after the Babylonish captivity, no public calamity should come upon them for the sins of their fathers and their own jointly, but for their own iniquities singly; so their last destruction by the Romans was for their personal disbelief and rejection of the Messiah; see Joh 8:24; and the calamities upon them ever since have been for the same reason.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֛י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | except | H518 → | 1069 times |
| אִ֥ישׁ | ʾish | everyone | H376 → | 1663 times |
| בַּעֲוֹנ֖וֹ | baavono | for own iniquity his | H5771 → | 233 times |
| יָמ֑וּת | yamut | he will die | H4191 → | 839 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הָֽאָדָ֛ם | haadam | <the> person | H120 → | 551 times |
| הָאֹכֵ֥ל | haokhel | who eats | H398 → | 810 times |
| הַבֹּ֖סֶר | haboser | the sour grape[s] | H1155 → | |
| תִּקְהֶ֥ינָה | tikheinah | they will be blunt | H6949 → | |
| שִׁנָּֽיו׃ ס | shinav | teeth his | H8127 → |
כִּ֛יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אִם־except
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
אִ֥ישׁeveryone
ʾishH376 →1663 times
בַּעֲוֹנ֖וֹfor own iniquity his
baavonoH5771 →233 times
יָמ֑וּתhe will die
yamutH4191 →839 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הָֽאָדָ֛ם<the> person
haadamH120 →551 times
הָאֹכֵ֥לwho eats
haokhelH398 →810 times
הַבֹּ֖סֶרthe sour grape[s]
haboserH1155 →
תִּקְהֶ֥ינָהthey will be blunt
tikheinahH6949 →
שִׁנָּֽיו׃ סteeth his
shinavH8127 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 25:4
Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 31:29–30
“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Kings 14:5–6
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
- Ezekiel 18:20
Through
Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 14:6
Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not…
- Deuteronomy 24:16
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
- Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
- 2 Kings 14:6
Through
Ezekiel 18:4Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
it leads to
- Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 6:23
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Pacian of Barcelona, LETTER 3:3.3 and Theodoret of Cyrus, ON JEREMIAH 7:31.