Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Why do you complain and contend with Me?
You have all rebelled (transgressed) against Me,” says the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Holman Bible
All of you have rebelled against Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
International Standard Version
Why do you contend with me? You have rebelled against me," declares the LORD.
A Conservative Version
Why will ye contend with me? Ye have all transgressed against me, says LORD.
American Standard Version
Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Darby Translation
Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore will ye contend against me? all ye transgressed against me, says Jehovah.
King James 2000
Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me}," {declares} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
Why will you plead with Me? You all have sinned against Me, says Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore then will ye go to law with me, seeing ye all are sinners against me, sayeth the LORD?
NET Bible
"Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me," says the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
"Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, should ye plead against me, All of you, have transgressed against me Declareth Yahweh.
Webster
Why 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 Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Interlinear
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
28
“But where are your gods
Which you made for yourself?
Let them get up, if they can save you
In the time of your trouble!
For [as many as] the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah. [Why do not your many man-made idols run to help you?]
“Why do you complain and contend with Me?
You have all rebelled (transgressed) against Me,” says the Lord.
“In vain I have punished your people [with the consequences of their disobedience];
They received no insight from correction [and refused to change].
Your [own] sword has devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1
And look now and take note.
And look in her open squares
To see if you can find a man [as Abraham sought in Sodom],
One who is just, who [has integrity and moral courage and] seeks truth (faithfulness);
Then I will pardon Jerusalem—[for the sake of one uncompromisingly righteous person].
Jeremiah 6:13
“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is greedy for [unfair] gain;
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals deceitfully.
Daniel 9:11
Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even turning aside, not obeying Your voice; so the curse has been poured out on us and the oath which is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
Jeremiah 2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
I have not gone after [man-made gods like] the Baals’?
Look at your way in the valley;
Know [without any doubt] what you have done!
You are a swift and restless young [female] camel [in the heat of her passion] running here and there,
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet you keep saying, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger has turned away from me.’
Behold (listen very carefully), I will bring you to judgment and will plead my case against you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Jeremiah 3:2
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]
Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,
And you have desecrated the land
With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment].