He calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to rightly rule His people:
Jeremiah 2:9 - The Scriptures 2009 “Therefore I still contend with you,” declares יהוה, “and with your children’s children I contend. 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 calls to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to rightly rule His people:
you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, יהוה your Elohim am a jealous Ěl, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,”
“Remind Me, let us enter into judgment, together; relate, that you might be declared right.
“Why do you complain to Me? You all have transgressed against Me,” declares יהוה.
you say, ‘Because I am innocent, certainly His displeasure shall turn from me.’ See, I shall bring judgment on you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he strove with Elohim.
“Strive with your mother, strive, for she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her whorings from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts,
Hear the word of יהוה, you children of Yisra’ĕl, for יהוה has a case against the inhabitants of the land: “For there is no truth or loving-commitment or knowledge of Elohim in the land.
then I shall set My face against that man and against his clan, and shall cut him off – and all who go whoring after him, even go whoring after Moleḵ – from the midst of their people.
“Hear, O you mountains, the controversy of יהוה, and you everlasting foundations of the earth! For יהוה has a controversy with His people and He shall reprove Yisra’ĕl.