In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Ver. 29. In those days they shall say no more.] There shall be rectius de operibus Dei iudicium, a more correct judgment passed upon God's proceedings. See about this byword, Ezekiel 18:2 .
Verse Jeremiah 31:29. _THE FATHERS HAVE EATEN A SOUR GRAPE_] A proverbial expression for, "The children suffer for the offences of their parents." This is explained in the next verse: "Every one shall...
The prophet shows that the happiness of Israel and Judah, united in one prosperous nation, will rest upon the consciousness that their chastisement has been the result of sins which they have themselv...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assur
Yahweh will replenish the scanty populations of both kingdoms, and will establish them (for the terms, _cf._ Jeremiah 1:10). In the future, individual responsibility for sin will replace the old doctr...
SET ON EDGE.. proverb, mentioned here for the first time. Here restated, and corrected in Jeremiah 31:30....
See introd. summary to the section....
The words "The fathers have eaten, etc." occur also in Ezekiel 18:2, where they are spoken of as a proverb. The people complain that they are being punished for the sins of an earlier generation (perh...
IN THOSE DAYS, &C.— See the note on Exodus 20:5....
D. New Conditions Jeremiah 31:23-30 TRANSLATION (23) Thus says the LORD of hosts the God of Israel: Yet they shall speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I reverse their fortunes...
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. IN THOSE DAYS - after their punishment has been completed, and mercy again visi...
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
THE FATHERS HAVE EATEN A SOUR GRAPE... — The proverb was one which, as we find from Ezekiel 18:2, had at this time come into common use. Men found in it an explanation of their sufferings which reliev...
בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם לֹא ־יֹאמְר֣וּ...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1;...
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have (g) eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. (g) The wicked used this proverb when they murmured against God's judgments pr...
_Edge. Such observations had been too often made, Ezechiel xviii. 12. (Haydock) --- Henceforward you shall not suffer for the faults of Achab, Manasses, &c. Each one shall bear his own burden. The cap...
Perhaps, in allusion to the flourishing state of Christ's church, under the latter day dispensation, this prophesy had respect. But what I particularly desire the Reader to remark with me is, the diff...
Ezekiel shews that it was a complaint commonly prevailing among the people, that they suffered for the sins of their fathers, as Horace also says, a heathen and a despiser of God, “O Roman, thou dost...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
IN THOSE DAYS THEY SHALL SAY NO MORE,.... The following proverb or byword; they should have no occasion to use it, nor should they choose to use it; since they would understand themselves, and the dis...
_They shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape_, &c. “God had often declared that he would _visit the sins of the fathers upon the children_, and had particularly threatened to execute j...
THE NEW LIFE AND THE NEW COVENANT...
In those days they shall say no more, according to a proverb which had been coined during the years of tribulation in Israel, THE FATHERS HAVE EATEN A SOUR GRAPE, AND THE CHILDREN'S TEETH ARE SET ON E...
27-34 The people of God shall become numerous and prosperous. In Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 8:9, this place is quoted as the sum of the covenant of grace made with believers in Jesus Christ. Not, I will gi...
That is, We are punished for our fathers sins; which yet God may justly do; and none questioneth the justice of man in the case, depriving children of their patrimonial estates for their parents treas...
Jeremiah 31:29 days H3117 say H559 (H8799) fathers H1 eaten H398 (H8804) grapes H1155 childrens H1121 teeth...
IN COMING DAYS YHWH WILL RE-ESTABLISH ISRAEL AND JUDAH IN THE LAND AND WILL BUILD THEM UP (JEREMIAH 31:27). YHWH's promise is that He will, once the time is ripe, sow the land with men and animals so...
THE THREEFOLD PREDICTIONS CONCERNING ‘THE DAYS THAT ARE COMING' (JEREMIAH 31:27). We now come to a threefold prediction concerning the coming days, backed up by absolute assurances of their fulfilmen...
SUB-PART B. THE COMING DAYS WILL INTRODUCE A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF COVENANT PROVIDED BY YHWH, ONE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND WILL THUS RESULT IN CHANGED LIVES (JEREMIAH 31:23). This sub-part co...
Jeremiah 31:29. _In these days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eatet...
Jeremiah 31:22. _For the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man._ Here is a prophecy of the birth of Immanuel, God with us, born of a woman by the supernatural power...
Jeremiah 31:27. Behold, the days come, saith 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 beast. And it shall come to pass, that like...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee with...
_In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge._ THE BEQUETHMENT OF THE UNGODLY There is this great difference between moral and...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:29 SOUR GRAPES... TEETH ARE SET ON EDGE. This proverb was apparently common (see Lamentations 5:7;...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
Ezekiel 18:2; Ezekiel 18:3; Jeremiah 31:30; Lamentations 5:7...