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Jeremiah 2:9

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¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.
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  1. Ezekiel 20:35–36Rank 1 from verse 9
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    35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

    36Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.

  2. Exodus 20:5Rank 2 from verse 9
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    5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

  3. Jeremiah 2:35Rank 3 from verse 9
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    35Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

  4. Micah 6:2Rank 4 from verse 9
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    2Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

  5. Hosea 2:2Rank 5 from verse 9
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    2Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

  6. Isaiah 3:13Rank 6 from verse 9
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    13The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

  7. Isaiah 43:26Rank 7 from verse 9
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    26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

  8. Jeremiah 2:29Rank 8 from verse 9
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    29Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

  9. Leviticus 20:5Rank 9 from verse 9
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    5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.

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Jeremiah 2:9

COMBINED MEANING

wherefore

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1. For that reason, or as a conclusion from what precedes; therefore or consequently. 2. For what reason or purpose; why.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yet

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1. Up to or at the present or stated time; still. 2. At some future time. 3. Nevertheless; however. 4. In addition; further.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

plead

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Sense 1: To argue, appeal, or speak in support of a cause before one who may decide it. Sense 2: To contend, judge, vindicate, or maintain a cause.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:9¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

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2:10For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

2:11Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

2:12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord.

2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

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