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True Justice

18 The word of the Lord came to me. He said, “Why do you people say this proverb:

‘The parents ate the sour grapes,
    but the children got the sour taste’[a]?”

But the Lord God says, “By my life, I swear that people in Israel will not think this proverb is true anymore!

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:2 The parents … sour taste This means the children were suffering for things their parents did.

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