Jeremiah 2:29 “Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,”…”

Jeremiah 2:29

Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says the LORD.

American Standard Version

Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore wil ye pleade with me? ye all haue rebelled against me, sayeth the Lord.

Darby Translation

Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“will ye plead”

Jeremiah 2:23 Jeremiah 2:35 Jeremiah 3:2

Jeremiah 2:23 · BSB

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Jeremiah 2:35 · BSB

you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Jeremiah 3:2 · BSB

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your…

“ye all have”

Jeremiah 5:1 Jeremiah 6:13 Daniel 9:11 Jeremiah 9:2–6 Romans 3:19

Jeremiah 5:1 · BSB

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

Jeremiah 6:13 · BSB

“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

Daniel 9:11 · BSB

All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 9:2–6 · BSB

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Romans 3:19 · BSB

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.

30“I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”

Read Jeremiah 2