Jeremiah 2:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.

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  • Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 And I have brought you in unto the wilderness of the peoples, And have been judged with you there face to face. 36 As I was judged with your fathers, In the wilderness of the land of Egypt, So I am judged with you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
  • Jer 2:35 : 35 And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'
  • Mic 6:2 : 2 Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones -- foundations of earth! For a strife `is' to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
  • Lev 20:5 : 5 then I have set My face against that man, and against his family, and have cut him off, and all who are going a-whoring after him, even going a-whoring after the Molech, from the midst of their people.
  • Isa 3:13 : 13 Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Cause me to remember -- we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.
  • Jer 2:29 : 29 Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Hos 2:2 : 2 Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she `is' not My wife, and I `am' not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

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