Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore, should ye plead against me, All of you, have transgressed against me Declareth Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 2:35Although thou saidst, Because I am innocent, surely hath his anger turned back from me,—Behold me! entering into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned!
Jeremiah 5:1Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, And see I pray you and know and seek out in the broad places thereof, Whether ye can find, a man, Whether there is one Doing justice Demanding fidelity,—That I may pardon her.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness, a wayfarers’ lodge, That I might leave my people, and go from them,—For they all, are Adulterers, An assemblage of traitors;
Romans 3:19Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto 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 →