💧WEB · Jeremiah 2:9
What does Jeremiah 2:9 mean?
"“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children."
— Jeremiah 2:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and followed things that do not profit.
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
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