Jeremiah 2:9
Because of this, I will still contend in judgment against you, says the Lord, and I will dispute with your sons.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
Psalms 50:4Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Isaiah 43:26Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.
Jeremiah 2:35And you have said: ‘I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.’ Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: ‘I have not sinned.’
Hosea 2:2Judge your mother, judge: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her fornications from before her face and her adulteries from between her breasts.
Hosea 12:3In the womb, he supplanted his brother; for in his good fortune, he had been guided by an angel.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:2-9
Jeremiah's First Message; The Divine Goodness to Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord , and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord . 4 Hear ye the word of the… Read the whole commentary →