Catholic Public Domain Version
"As I live, says the Lord God, this parable shall no longer be a proverb for you in Israel. "
— Ezekiel 18:3, Catholic Public Domain Version
“As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.”
“As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. ”
“As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.”
““As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!”
“As I live, saith the Lord God, this parable shall be no more to you a proverb in Israel.”
“By my life, says the Lord, you will no longer have this saying in Israel.”
“As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.”
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
“Why is it that you circulate among yourselves this parable, as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers ate a bitter grape, and the teeth of the sons have been affected.’
As I live, says the Lord God, this parable shall no longer be a proverb for you in Israel.
Behold, all souls are mine. Just as the soul of the father is mine, so also is the soul of the son. The soul that sins, the same shall die.
And if a man is just, and he accomplishes judgment and justice,
and if he does not eat upon the mountains, nor lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and if he has not violated the wife of his neighbor, nor approached a menstruating woman,