Jeremiah 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face. 36 As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Lev 20:5 : 5 Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.
  • Isa 3:13 : 13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
  • Jer 2:29 : 29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
  • Hos 2:2 : 2 Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 2:29-31
    3 verses
    80%

    29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Jer 2:10
    77%

    10 For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.

  • Ezek 20:35-36
    2 verses
    76%

    35 And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.

    36 As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

  • Isa 1:2
    75%

    2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • Jer 2:8
    74%

    8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

  • Jer 3:19-20
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    74%

    19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:7
    72%

    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Jer 1:16
    72%

    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Mic 6:2
    72%

    2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

  • Joel 1:3
    72%

    3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

  • Mal 2:17
    72%

    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Jer 9:9
    72%

    9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Hos 2:2
    72%

    2 Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

  • Amos 3:1
    72%

    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • Jer 11:7
    72%

    7 For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

  • Jer 30:20
    72%

    20 And their children will be as they were in the old days, and the meeting of the people will have its place before me, and I will send punishment on all who are cruel to them.

  • Hos 4:1
    72%

    1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

  • Isa 65:7
    72%

    7 For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.

  • Isa 49:25
    72%

    25 But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.

  • Mal 3:13
    72%

    13 Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

  • Jer 2:5
    72%

    5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • Jer 5:29
    71%

    29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Jer 15:6
    71%

    6 You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

  • Jer 50:4
    71%

    4 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

  • Ps 73:15
    71%

    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Joel 2:17
    71%

    17 Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • Isa 50:1
    71%

    1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

  • Jer 2:1
    71%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Jer 3:4
    71%

    4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

  • Jer 5:9
    71%

    9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Jer 16:11
    71%

    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

  • Isa 8:5
    71%

    5 And the Lord said again to me,

  • Jer 5:18
    71%

    18 But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.

  • Isa 59:21
    70%

    21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

  • Ezek 18:1
    70%

    1 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

  • Amos 2:4
    70%

    4 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

  • Jer 3:14
    70%

    14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

  • Jer 31:17
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    17 And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.

  • Isa 1:24
    70%

    24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

  • Jer 11:10
    70%

    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 9:7
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    7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

  • Lam 2:20
    70%

    20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Hos 12:2
    70%

    2 Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

  • Jer 25:7
    70%

    7 But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Isa 30:9
    70%

    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

  • Jer 2:35
    70%

    35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.