Jeremiah 2:9

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Therefore I will still bring charges against you, declares the LORD, and against your children’s children I will bring charges.

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  • Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face. 36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear, O mountains, the Lord's lawsuit, and you enduring foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against His people, and He will dispute with Israel.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 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 on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  • Lev 20:5 : 5 then I will set my face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.
  • Isa 3:13 : 13 The LORD takes His stand to argue His case; He rises to judge the peoples.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Remind Me; let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be justified.
  • Jer 2:29 : 29 Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,” declares the LORD.
  • Hos 2:2 : 2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

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  • Jer 2:29-31
    3 verses
    80%

    29 Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me,” declares the LORD.

    30 In vain I have struck your children; they accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

    31 You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: ‘Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of deep darkness? Why do my people say, “We are free to roam; we will come to you no more”?’

  • 10 Go across to the coasts of Cyprus and look, send to Kedar and observe closely; see if there has ever been anything like this.

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    35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

    36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

  • 8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed worthless things.

  • Jer 3:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 I myself said, “How gladly would I treat you like my children and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.” I thought you would call me 'Father' and not turn away from following me.

    20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband, so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,' declares the LORD.

  • 7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • 16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • 2 Hear, O mountains, the Lord's lawsuit, and you enduring foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against His people, and He will dispute with Israel.

  • 3 Tell it to your children, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.

  • 17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • 9 I will raise weeping and wailing for the mountains and a dirge for the pastures in the wilderness, because they are burned up and desolate; no one passes through, and cattle cannot be heard anymore—birds of the sky and animals alike have fled and are gone.

  • 2 The people of Judah and Israel will come together, appoint one leader, and rise up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.

  • 1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

  • 7 For I earnestly warned your ancestors on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt until this very day, persistently saying: Listen to my voice.

  • 20 Their children will be as they were in former times, and their community will be established before Me. I will punish all who oppress them.

  • 1 Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! For the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: there is no truth, no steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.

  • 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'

  • 25 But this is what the Lord says: 'Yes, the captives of the mighty will be taken, and the prey of the ruthless will be rescued. I will contend with those who oppose you, and I will save your children.'

  • 13 Your words against me have been harsh, says the Lord. But you ask, 'What have we spoken against you?

  • 5 This is what the LORD says: ‘What fault did your ancestors find in me that they strayed so far from me? They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves.

  • 29 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

  • 6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • 4 In those days and at that time,' declares the LORD, 'the people of Israel and the people of Judah will come together, weeping as they go, seeking the LORD their God.

  • 15 If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'

  • 1 This is what the LORD says: Where is the certificate of divorce for your mother, whom I sent away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Behold, because of your sins, you were sold, and because of your transgressions, your mother was sent away.

  • 1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 4 Have you not just now called to me, 'My Father, you are the friend of my youth'?

  • 9 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not take vengeance on a nation like this?

  • 11 Then you are to answer them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned Me,' declares the LORD, 'and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. But they abandoned Me and did not keep My law.

  • 5 The Lord spoke to me again:

  • 18 Yet even in those days, declares the Lord, I will not completely destroy you.

  • 21 As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says the LORD. My Spirit, who is upon you, and My words, that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your children or your children's children, from now on and forever, says the LORD.

  • 1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • 4 This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept His statutes. Their lies have led them astray, lies after which their ancestors walked.'

  • 14 Return, faithless children,' declares the LORD, 'for I am your master. I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.

  • 17 There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.

  • 24 Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "I will gain relief from My adversaries and avenge Myself on My enemies.

  • 10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

  • 7 Their tongues are a sharpened arrow; deceit pours from their mouths. They speak peace to their neighbor, but in their hearts, they set up an ambush.

  • 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • 2 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long. They multiply lies and violence, making a covenant with Assyria and sending oil to Egypt.

  • 7 But you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, and you have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own harm.

  • 9 These are a rebellious people, deceitful children, unwilling to listen to the LORD's instruction.

  • 35 Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' But I will bring you to judgment because you say, 'I have not sinned.'