Jeremiah 2:9

For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

8The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

10For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Psalms 50:4His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people:

Isaiah 43:26Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

Jeremiah 2:35And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

Hosea 2:2Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

Hosea 12:3\12:2\The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.

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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