Jeremiah 2 · Verse 9

Jeremiah 2:9

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
Jeremiah 2:9, King James Version

Jeremiah 2:9 in other translations

BSBTherefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
WEB“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says the LORD, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
ASVWherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.
YLTTherefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.
DARBYTherefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.
BBEFor this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
WebsterWherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

What does Jeremiah 2:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 I will yet plead with you - אריב arib, I will maintain my process, vindicate my own conduct, and prove the wickedness of yours.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 2:9-13
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 drooping saints, supports and maintains spiritual life, and issues in eternal life, and is ever-flowing. To forsake this Fountain is the first evil; this is done when the people of God neglect his word and ordinances. They hewed them out broken cisterns, that could hold no water. Such are the world, and the things in it; such are the inventions of men when followed and depended on. Let us, with purpose of heart, cleave to the Lord only; whither else shall we go? How prone are we to forego the consolations of the Holy Spirit, for the worthless joys of the enthusiast and hypocrite!

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 2:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָכֵ֗ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651
עֹ֛ד'odagainH5750
אָרִ֥יב'a.RivI will contendH7378
אִתְּכֶ֖ם'i.te.Khemwith youH854
נְאֻם\־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand withH854
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] children ofH1121
בְנֵיכֶ֖םve.nei.Khemchildren yourH1121
אָרִֽיב\׃'a.RivI will contendH7378

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 2:9

  • Ezekiel 20:35-36

    And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.

  • Exodus 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 that hate me;

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Micah 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.

  • Leviticus 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.

  • Isaiah 43:26

    Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

  • Hosea 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;

  • Jeremiah 2:29

    Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

  • Isaiah 3:13

    The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.
29,35; Isa 3:13; 43:26; Eze 20:35,36; Ho 2:2; Mic 6:2
with your.
Ex 20:5; Le 20:5

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Context

  • Jeremiah 2:8

    The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • Jeremiah 2:9

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

  • Jeremiah 2:10

    For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

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Jeremiah 2:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Por tanto entraré aún en juicio con vosotros, dijo Jehová, y con los hijos de vuestros hijos pleitearé.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		C’est pourquoi je contesterai encore avec vous, dit l’ Éternel, et je contesterai avec les fils de vos fils.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Darum werde ich weiter mit euch rechten, spricht Jehova; und mit euren Kindeskindern werde ich rechten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Propterea adhuc judicio contendam vobiscum, ait Dominus, et cum filiis vestris disceptabo.