9Why I will yet plead with you, said the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.


In Context

6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelled?

7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

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.

9 Why I will yet plead with you, said the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

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

11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 2:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:9"Therefore I bring charges against you again," declares the Lord . "And I will bring charges against your children's children.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I contend.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9|Therefore I will yet contend with you,| says Yahweh, |and I will contend with your children's children.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.