Jeremiah 2 · Verse 29

Jeremiah 2:29

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:29, King James Version

Jeremiah 2:29 in other translations

BSBWhy do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
WEB“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.
ASVWherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
YLTWhy do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DARBYWherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
BBEWhy will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
WebsterWhy will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

What does Jeremiah 2:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. plead with me--that is, contend with Me for afflicting you (Jr 2:23, 35).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37
The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him! The Lord was displeased with their confidences, and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Jeremiah 2:29 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָ֥מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100
תָרִ֖יבוּta.Ri.vudo you contendH7378
אֵלָ֑י'e.Laiagainst meH413
כֻּלְּכֶ֛םku.le.Khemall of youH3605
פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥םpe.sha'.Temyou have rebelledH6586
בִּ֖יbiagainst <the> me
נְאֻם\־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
will ye plead.
23,35; 3:2
ye all have.
5:1; 6:13; 9:2-6; Da 9:11; Ro 3:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

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.

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Jeremiah 2:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Por qué porfías conmigo? Todos vosotros prevaricasteis contra mí, dice Jehová.
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.