Jeremiah 2:9

Therefore yet further will I plead with you Declareth Yahweh, Yea with your children’s children, will I plead.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, said not Where is Yahweh? And, they who handled the law, did not acknowledge me, And the shepherds transgressed against me,—And the prophets, prophesied by Baal, And so after things that could not profit, did they walk.

10For—pass through the coastlands of the West and see, And unto Kedar, send ye and consider diligently,—And see—whether there hath been the like of this!

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor be led to serve them—For, I, Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, unto three [generations] and, unto four, of them that hate me;

Psalms 50:4He calleth, Unto the heavens above, And unto the earth, That he may judge his people.

Isaiah 43:26Put me in mind, Let us enter into judgment at once,—Recount, thou, that thou mayest be justified:

Jeremiah 2:35Although thou saidst, Because I am innocent, surely hath his anger turned back from me,—Behold me! entering into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned!

Hosea 2:2Contend ye with your mother, contend, for she is no wife of mine, and I am no husband of hers, Let her then put away her paramours from before her, and her partners in adultery, from her embraces:

Hosea 12:3In the womb, took he his brother by the heel; and, in his manly vigour, strove he 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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