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Jeremiah 2:9

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.

KJV

Propterea adhuc judicio contendam vobiscum, ait Dominus, et cum filiis vestris disceptabo.

Vulgate

διὰ τοῦτο ἔτι κριθήσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν υἱῶν ὑμῶν κριθήσομαι.

LXX

Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.

ASV

לָ/כֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּ/כֶ֖ם נְאֻם יְהוָ֑ה וְ/אֶת בְּנֵ֥י בְנֵי/כֶ֖ם אָרִֽיב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
preposition · 883×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
ה
h
verb · 70×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
נְאֻם
n'm
noun · 374×
ע֖וֹד
'vd
adverb · 485×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 22:7 — And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Exod 20:5 — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them th
  • Ezek 20:35 — And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
  • Hos 2:2 — Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
  • Isa 3:13 — The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
  • Isa 43:26 — Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
  • Jer 2:29 — Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 2:35 — Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
  • Lev 20:5 — Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
  • Mic 6:2 — Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
  • Mic 6:2 — Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
  • Ps 50:7 — Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.