He shall call to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Jeremiah 2:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore I will still contend with you [by inflicting further judgments on you], says the Lord, and with your children's children will I contend. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend. Common English Bible That is why I will take you to court and charge even your descendants, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, I will still contend in judgment against you, says the Lord, and I will dispute with your sons. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children. |
He shall call to the heavens above, And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgement with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:
Plead with your mother, plead; 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;
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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.
Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.