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


In Context

6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'

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

8 The priests didn't say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law didn't know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

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

10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

11 Has a nation changed its gods, which really are 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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