Jeremiah 2:9
Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend.
Context
v.8The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
v.9This passage
v.10For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
- Ezekiel 20:35
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
- Hosea 2:2
Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
- Leviticus 20:5
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.
- Isaiah 3:13
Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.
- Micah 6:2
Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah’s controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.