To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you bdefiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.
And those who handle the alaw did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
bThe prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.
“And against your children’s children I will bring charges.
Send to1 Kedar and consider diligently,
And see if there has been such a athing.
Which are bnot gods?
cBut My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
They have forsaken Me, the afountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When bHe led you in the way?
To drink the waters of1 bSihor?
Or why take the road to cAssyria,
To drink the waters of the River?
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the1 fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
And byou said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When con every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, dplaying the harlot.
How then have you turned before Me
Into bthe degenerate plant of an alien vine?
Yet your iniquity is amarked before Me,” says the Lord God.
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.
But you said, a‘There is no hope.
No! For I have loved baliens, and after them I will go.’
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their aprophets,
And to a astone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their btrouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
Let them arise,
If they bcan save you in the time of your1 trouble;
For caccording to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.
| << Jeremiah 2:8 | Jeremiah 2:10 >> |
American Standard Version
Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I contend.
Amplified® Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
I will take you to court and accuse you and your descendants *
Darby English Version
Therefore will I yet plead with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I plead.
Good News Bible
"And so I, the LORD, will state my case against my people again. I will bring charges against their descendants.
King James Version
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore I will yet contend with you, declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend."
New International Version
"Therefore I bring charges against you again,"
declares the LORD.
"And I will bring charges against your children's children.
New King James Version
“ Therefore I will yet bring charges against you,” says the LORD,
“ And against your children’s children I will bring charges.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend.
Revised Standard Version
"Therefore I still contend with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.
| << Jeremiah 2:8 | Jeremiah 2:10 >> |
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