Jeremiah 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Yet plead - namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you.

Children's children - three manuscript 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). (cf. Ezekiel 20:35-36; Micah 6:2).

Jeremiah 2:9

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