Ezekiel 18:2

God's Just Treatment Of Individuals, Both Righteous And Wicked

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² “What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:

The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge? ³ As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“you will no longer use this proverb in Israel.

Land of Israel

Sour Grapes

Israel

Sin

Isaiah 3:15

Why do you crush My people
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

Lamentations 5:7

Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist,
but we bear their punishment.

Jeremiah 31:29-30

“In those days, it will never again be said:

The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

Jeremiah 15:4

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 6:2-3

“Son of man, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 7:2

“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:

An end! The end has come
on the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 17:12

“Now say to that rebellious house: Don’t you know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God: This is what the Lord God says: Because you said, ‘Good!’ about My sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it was laid waste, and about the house of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 36:1-6

“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Ezekiel 37:19

tell them: This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick so that they become one in My hand.

Ezekiel 37:25

“They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

Matthew 23:36

I assure you: All these things will come on this generation!

Romans 9:20

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”