He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
Jeremiah 2:9 - Revised Standard Version “Therefore I still contend with you, says the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
The Lord has taken his place to contend, he stands to judge his people.
Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, 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.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, 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 harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;
Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;
then I will set my face against that man and against his family, and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in playing the harlot after Molech.
Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.