Jeremiah 2:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.”
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“Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:29 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.’
- 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 your prostitution and wickedness.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 9:2If 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).