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"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."
— Jeremiah 2:9, NET Bible
“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.”
“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.”
They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
Your priests did not ask,‘Where is the LORD?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.
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.
Go west across the sea to the coasts of Cyprus and see. Send someone east to Kedar and have them look carefully. See if such a thing as this has ever happened:
Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
Be amazed at this, O heavens! Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the LORD.