Judah Is Replanted and the Sour-Grapes Proverb Ends

Judah's land is blessed again, and weary people are satisfied

As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. Husbandmen and they that go forth with flocks shall dwell in Judah together.

I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. Satisfaction of the weary is restoration, not a nap mistaken for faith. Sorrowful souls are replenished, not scolded.

Sour grapes will not be the proverb of the new planting

Behold, the days come that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. Like as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, so will I watch over them to build and to plant.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. Individual accountability does not deny structural harm, intergenerational trauma, or collective work of repair. It refuses a proverb that makes children nothing but their parents' aftertaste.