Jeremiah 2:9

“So, I will accuse you in court. In future years, I will say what your children and your grandchildren have done that is wrong. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have said that it will happen.

Translation for Translators

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

8Your priests also did not say, ‘◄Where is Yahweh now?/Yahweh should be helping us now!►’ [RHQ] Those who teach/explain my laws do not want to know me, and your leaders have rebelled against me. Your prophets gave you messages from their god Baal, and they worship worthless idols.”

10If you go west to the island of Cyprus, or if you go east to Kedar land, and if you ask people in those places, they will tell you that no people from their countries have ever done the wicked things that you people have done!

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You must not bow down to any idol and worship it, because I am Yahweh God, and I ◄am very jealous/want you to worship me only►. I will punish those who sin and hate me. I will punish not only them, but I will punish ◄their descendants, down to the third and fourth generation/their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren►.

Psalms 50:4He comes to judge his people. He shouts to the angels in heaven and to the people on the earth.

Isaiah 43:26Tell me what I have done that you do not like. Do you think that when you state your case, you will prove that you ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong► [IRO]?

Jeremiah 2:35you say ‘We have not done anything that is wrong; so surely Yahweh is not angry with us.’ But I will punish [MTY] you severely for saying ‘We have not sinned.’

Hosea 2:2Yahweh also said to me, “I want you to accuse the Israeli people. It is as though [MET] this nation is your mother, but this nation is no longer as though it is [MET] my wife, and it is no longer as though [MET] I am its husband. Tell the Israeli people that they must stop acting like a prostitute by worshiping other gods; they must stop showing by their behavior that they ◄are unfaithful to/have abandoned► me [MET].

Hosea 12:3When Jacob was in his mother’s womb, he grabbed his brother Esau’s heel because he wanted to be born first. When Jacob grew up, 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 →

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