He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Jeremiah 2:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore once more I accuse you, says the Lord, and I accuse your children’s children. Plus de 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 above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me
Accuse me; let us go to trial; set forth your case, so that you may be proved right.
Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the Lord.
you say, “I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.” Now I am bringing you to judgment for saying, “I have not sinned.”
In the womb he tried to supplant his brother, and in his manhood he strove with God.
Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her prostitution from her face and her adultery from between her breasts,
Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel, for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty and no knowledge of God in the land.
I myself will set my face against them and against their family and will cut them off from among their people, them and all who follow them in prostituting themselves to Molech.
Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel.