Jeremiah 2:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.”
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“Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:5You 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 20:5then 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.
- Psalms 50:4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
- Isaiah 3:13The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
- Isaiah 43:26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
- Jeremiah 2:29Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
- Ezekiel 20:35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
- Hosea 2:2Rebuke 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.
- Hosea 4:1Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
- Hosea 12:3In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
- Micah 6:2Hear, 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:
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