Jeremiah 2:29
What does Jeremiah 2:29 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 2:29 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Context
v.28But 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.
v.29This passage
v.30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 3:19
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
- Jeremiah 2:23
How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
- 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 doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.
- Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
- Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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