Jeremiah 2:9
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
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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 bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Psalms 50:4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
Jeremiah 2:35“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Hosea 2:2Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hosea 12:3In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood 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 →