Israel Has Forsaken God

Jeremiah 2:9

In 11 translations

BSB: Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
KJV: ¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
WEB: “Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
ASV: Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.
LSV: Therefore, I yet plead with you,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And I plead with your sons’ sons.
YLT: Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.
DBY: Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.
DRC: Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.
GNV: Wherefore I wil yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and I will pleade with your childrens children.
JPS: Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
LXXE: Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children's children.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בְנֵיכֶ֖ם אָרִֽיב׃
LXX-Br: Διατοῦτο ἔτι κριθήσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν υἱῶν ὑμῶν κριθήσομαι.

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From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Ezekiel 20:35–36And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face. Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter…
Jeremiah 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Micah 6:2Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
Hosea 2:2Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
Isaiah 3:13The LORD arises to contend; He stands to judge the people.
Isaiah 43:26Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
Leviticus 20:5then I will set My face against that man and his family and cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.
Jeremiah 2:29Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

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