Catholic Public Domain Version
"Because of this, I will still contend in judgment against you, says the Lord, and I will dispute with your sons. "
— Jeremiah 2:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.”
“Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children’s children will I contend. ”
“"Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.”
“The Lord Charges Contemporary Israel with Spiritual Adultery“So, once more I will state my case against you,” says the LORD.“I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.”
“Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.”
“For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.”
“Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.”
And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’
And I led you into the land of Carmel, so that you would eat from its fruit and from its excellence. And having entered it, you defiled my land, and you turned my inheritance into an abomination.
The priests have not said: ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who held the law did not know me. And the pastors betrayed me. And the prophets prophesied in Baal and followed idols.
Because of this, I will still contend in judgment against you, says the Lord, and I will dispute with your sons.
Cross over to the isles of Kittim, and gaze. And send to Kedar, and consider diligently. And see if anything like this has ever been done.
See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol.
Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be utterly desolate, O gates of heaven, says the Lord.