Jeremiah 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

Jeremiah 2:9 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:35-36
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. …
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Micah 6:2
Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-13)

The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (Jer. 2:9): I will yet plead with you. Note, Before God punishes sinners he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. Note, further, When much has been said of the evil of sin, still there is more to be said; when one article of the charge is made good, there is another to be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. yet plead--namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you. children’s children--Three manuscripts and Jerome omit “children’s”; they seem to have thought it unsuitable to read “children’s children,” when “children” had not preceded. But it is designedly so written, to intimate that the final judgment on the nation would be suspended for many generations [Horsley]. (Compare Eze 20:35, 36;…