Jeremiah 2:29

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Why do you strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Why will you contend with me in judgement? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

GNV

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

JPS

Wherefore will ye contend with Me? Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the LORD.

LXXE

Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἱνατί λαλεῖτε πρὸς μέ; πάντες ὑμεῖς ἠσεβήσατε, καὶ πάντες ὑμεῖς ἠνομήσατε εἰς ἐμὲ, λέγει Κύριος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 5:1“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“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
• Daniel 9:11All 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 9:2–6If 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. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth…
• Jeremiah 2:23“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 2:35you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
• Romans 3:19Now 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.
• Jeremiah 3:2“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…

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