Jeremiah 2:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I contend.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בְנֵיכֶ֖ם אָרִֽיב׃

Transliteration

Lākēn ʿōd ʾārîb ʾittəkem nəʾum-YHWH wə-ʾet-bənê bənêkem ʾārîb

Grammar Details

*Lākēn*: adverb - therefore
*ʿōd*: adverb - still/yet/again
*ʾārîb*: qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will contend/dispute
*ʾittəkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - with you
*nəʾum*-*YHWH*: construct chain - declaration of YHWH
*wə-ʾet*-*bənê*: conjunction + direct object marker + noun, masculine plural construct - and with sons of
*bənêkem*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your sons

Word Meanings

*lākēn*: therefore/thus/consequently
*ʿōd*: still/yet/again/continuously
*ʾārîb*: I will contend/I will dispute/I will bring charges against
*nəʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle
*bənê*: sons of/children of/descendants of

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face. 36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
Lev 20:5 : 5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people.
Isa 3:13 : 13 Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.
Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified.
Jer 2:29 : 29 Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Hos 2:2 : 2 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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