Jeremiah 2:9 “Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I wil…”

Jeremiah 2:9

Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.

World English Bible

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

American Standard Version

Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore I wil yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and I will pleade with your childrens children.

Darby Translation

Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.

Bible in Basic English

For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

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Cross references

“I will”

Jeremiah 2:35 Micah 6:2 Jeremiah 2:29 Isaiah 3:13 Isaiah 43:26 Hosea 2:2

Jeremiah 2:35 · BSB

you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Micah 6:2 · BSB

Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

Jeremiah 2:29 · BSB

Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 3:13 · BSB

The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.

Isaiah 43:26 · BSB

Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

Hosea 2:2 · BSB

Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

“with your”

Exodus 20:5 Leviticus 20:5

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Leviticus 20:5 · BSB

then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

10Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

Read Jeremiah 2