Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 2:9

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9) Therefore I will still contend with you in judgment, says the Lord, and I will reason with your children. So that it may not seem that I strike with power, as if contending with equals in reason; according to what David sings and the Apostle uses: That you may be justified in your words, and may overcome whe…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

9Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children’s children.

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In context

7And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

8The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

— Jeremiah 2:9 —

10For go to the isles of the Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

11if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, for that from which they shall not be profited.

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