Jeremiah 2:9
Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.
Darby Translation
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 20:5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
Psalms 50:4He will call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance, let us plead together; rehearse thine own [cause], that thou mayest be justified.
Jeremiah 2:35And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Hosea 2:2Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 12:3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God.
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 →