Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:29 in other translations
| BSB | Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD. |
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| WEB | “Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD. |
| ASV | Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah. |
| YLT | Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. |
| DARBY | Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah. |
| BBE | Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord. |
| Webster | Why will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. |
What does Jeremiah 2:29 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37
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Jeremiah 2:29 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 2:29
- Daniel 9:11
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
- Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
- Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
- Jeremiah 2:35
Yet 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.
- Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
- Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. …
- Jeremiah 2:23
How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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Context
- Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
- Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:29 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Por qué porfías conmigo? Todos vosotros prevaricasteis contra mí, dice Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Pourquoi contesteriez-vous avec moi? Vous vous êtes tous rebellés contre moi, dit l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Warum rechtet ihr mit mir? Allesamt seid ihr von mir abgefallen, spricht Jehova. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quid vultis mecum judicio contendere? omnes dereliquistis me, dicit Dominus. |