Jeremiah 2:9

Jeremiah 2:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
• New International Version (NIV)“Therefore I bring charges against you again,” declares the Lord. “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Therefore I still contend with you, declares the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore I will yet bring charges against you,” says the Lord, “And against your children’s children I will bring charges.

Context of Jeremiah 2:9

7I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but after you entered, you defiled my land; you made my inheritance detestable. 8The priests quit asking, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols. Therefore, I will bring a case against you again. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will bring a case against your children’s children. 10Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look. Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this: 11Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Jeremiah 2:9 word by word

לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בְנֵיכֶ֖ם אָרִֽיב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Wherefore I will yet pleadרִיבrîyb rûb · to contendH7378
• with you, saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• and with your children’sבֵּןbên · son: childH1121

Cross-references for Jeremiah 2:9

• Jeremiah 2:29Why do you bring a case against me? All of you have rebelled against me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
• Isaiah 3:13The Lord rises to argue the case and stands to judge the people.
• Isaiah 43:26Remind me. Let’s argue the case together. Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated.
• Ezekiel 20:35I will lead you into the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you there face to face.
• Hosea 2:2Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.
• Micah 6:2Listen to the Lord’s lawsuit, you mountains and enduring foundations of the earth, because the Lord has a case against his people, and he will argue it against Israel.
• Exodus 20:5Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
• Leviticus 20:5then I will turn against that man and his family, and cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 2:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9I will yet plead with you - אריב arib, I will maintain my process, vindicate my own conduct, and prove the wickedness of yours.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Plead - The word used by the plaintiff setting forth his accusation in a law-court (see Job 33:13 note). With you - The present generation, who by joining in Manasseh‘s apostasy have openly violated Yahweh‘s covenant. The fathers made the nation what it now is, the children will receive it such as the present generation are now making it to be, and God will judge it according as the collective working of the past, the present, and the future tends to good…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-13Verses 9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves. Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the portion of those who throw themselves out of God's grace and favour. Grace in Christ is compared to water from a fountain, it being cooling and refreshing, cleansing and making fruitful: to living water, because it quickens dead sinners, revives…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9Therefore often means the Lord was about to make a decision (for example, Jeremiah 5:14; 6:21). The Hebrew word translated bring a case can mean "strive" or "contend." It might also suggest combat, like a fight, a verbal argument, or a legal case in court. Because the nation's leaders (Jeremiah 2:8) did not guide the people to him, the Lord planned to present his case against them. He was creating a court where he would be both the plaintiff and the…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. yet plead--namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you. children's children--Three manuscripts and Jerome omit "children's"; they seem to have thought it unsuitable to read "children's children," when "children" had not preceded. But it is designedly so written, to intimate that the final judgment on the nation would be suspended for many generations [Horsley]. (Compare Eze 20:35, 36; Mi 6:2).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings