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

7But I, the Lord, brought you to a good land. It was a place where fruit grew on trees. You could eat all those good things, as well as the crops that you grew there. You came into the land that I had promised to give to you. But you spoiled it with your sins. You made it a disgusting place. 8Your priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The people who taught my laws did not know me. Your leaders turned against me. Your prophets spoke messages from Baal. They worshipped useless idols.’ So the Lord says this: ‘Because of your sins, I will speak against you in court. I will show that you are guilty, as well as your children and your grandchildren. 10No other nation has done what you have done! Send people across the sea to islands in the west. Or send them to the deserts in the east. Let them find out if any other people have done this terrible thing. 11Have any other nations turned against their gods? No! They have not done that, even to their false gods! But my people have turned against me, the true God who makes them great.’

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 2:29You cannot argue against me. You have all turned against me.’ That is what the Lord says.
• Isaiah 3:13The Lord stands up to judge his people. He will decide how to punish them.
• Isaiah 43:26So let us talk together about what has happened. Show me why you think that you are right!
• Ezekiel 20:35I will bring you to a wilderness with other nations all around it. I will meet with you there and I will show that you are guilty.
• Hosea 2:2My children, warn your mother! She is no longer my wife. I am not her husband. Tell her that she must stop living like a prostitute. She must stop having sex with other men instead of me.
• Micah 6:2Listen, you mountains. Hear this, you strong places that have always been there deep in the earth. The Lord has a quarrel with Israel's people. Hear the reasons why the Lord is angry with you, his people.’
• Exodus 20:5You must not bend down your head to any idol or worship it. I am the Lord your God and I want you to belong to me alone. I will punish children because of the bad things that their fathers have done. I will also punish their children and their grandchildren too. That is how I will punish everyone who turns against me.
• Leviticus 20:5But the Lord himself will become an enemy of the man and of his family. The Lord will send him away with all the people who worship the god called 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