Jeremiah 31:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Individual Retribution

²⁷The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. ²⁸And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord. ²⁹In those days they shall no longer say:

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

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