jeremiah 2:9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

jeremiah 2:9 "Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend.

9. yet plead--namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you.
children's children--Three manuscripts and JEROME omit "children's"; they seem to have thought it unsuitable to read "children's children," when "children" had not preceded. But it is designedly so written, to intimate that the final judgment on the nation would be suspended for many generations [HORSLEY]. (Compare Eze 20:35, 36; Mic 6:2).

jeremiah 2:9 "Therefore I will yet contend with you," declares the LORD, "And with your sons' sons I will contend.

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