Jeremiah 2:29

Why will ye bring lawsuit against Me? 1 Ye all have rebelled against Me, saith Hashem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28But where are thy elohim 1 that thou hast made for thee? 1 Let them arise, if they can save thee 1 in the time of thy trouble; 1 for as many as are the mispar (number) 1 of thy towns are thy elohim, O Yehudah. 1

30In vain have I struck your banim; 1 they received no musar; + 2:30 cf Isa 53:5 1 your own cherev hath devoured your nevi'im, 1 like a destroying lion. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:35Thou sayest: Because I am innocent, 1 surely His anger shall turn from me. 1 Hineni, I will plead My case with thee, 1 because thou sayest: Loh chatati (I have not sinned). 1

Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the chutzot Yerushalayim (streets of Jerusalem), 1 and see now, and know, 1 and seek in the rechovot thereof, 1 if ye can find an ish, 1 if there be any that dispenseth mishpat (justice), 1 that seeketh the emunah (faith); 1 and I will forgive her. + 5:1 Jerusalem 1

Jeremiah 9:2And they bend to the ready their leshon like their keshet (bow) for sheker; 1 but not for emunah have they prevailed in ha'aretz; 1 for they proceed from ra'ah to ra'ah, 1 and they know not Me, saith Hashem. 1

Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the Gezetz (Law) says, it says to those under the Gezetz, in order that every mouth might be stopped and kol HaOlam Hazeh become ashem (guilty) and liable to the Mishpat Hashem. + 3:19 Ps 1:5

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:21-29

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God . 23 How canst thou… Read the whole commentary →

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