Jeremiah 2:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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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Referenced Verses

Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.
Jer 2:35 : 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.
Mic 6:2 : 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.
Exod 20:5 : 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;
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 go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Isa 3:13 : 13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Jer 2:29 : 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Hos 2:2 : 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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