Jeremiah 2:9
Therefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah; Yea, with your children's children will I contend.
Noyes Bible
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
Psalms 50:4He calleth to the heavens on high, And to the earth, while he judgeth his people:
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together; Speak that thou mayst justify thyself.
Jeremiah 2:35But notwithstanding all this, thou sayest, I am innocent; Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, Because thou sayest, “I have not sinned.”
Hosea 2:2Contend ye with your mother, contend! For she is not my wife, Nor am I her husband; That she put away lewdness from her face, And adultery from her breasts, Lest I strip her naked, And expose her, as when she was born;
Hosea 12:3In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his strength he contended 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 →