You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

(And you sinned worse than your fathers- for behold, you walk everyone after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to listen to Me).

In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children's teeth were set on edge.

Son of man, what do you mean by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,

Assuredly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

And they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not.

And their father Jacob said to them, You have bereaved me. Joseph is no [more], Simeon is no [more], and will you take Benjamin, [as well]? All these things have come against me!

The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: your eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.

A voice was heard in Ramah, [that] of lamentation, and of weeping, and wailing- Rachel would not cease weeping for her children, because they are not.

Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live forever?