Jeremiah 2:29
So why do you accuse me of doing wrong? All of you have sinned against me—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' 1 But look! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.' 1
Jeremiah 5:1“Rush about through the streets of Jerusalem; search in her city squares, too. Then look and think about this: 1 If you can find a man or anyone who is acting justly and trying to act faithfully, 1 then I will forgive Jerusalem. 1
Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to the ones who are under the law. This is in order that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world held accountable to God.
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 →