1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. ‘What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:‘ “The parents eat sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?
3. ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.
4. For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child – both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.
5. ‘Suppose there is a righteous manwho does what is just and right.