Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why will ye contend with me? Ye have all transgressed against me, says LORD.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Holman Bible
All of you have rebelled against Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
International Standard Version
Why do you contend with me? You have rebelled against me," declares the LORD.
American Standard Version
Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Amplified
“Why do you complain and contend with Me?
You have all rebelled (transgressed) against Me,” says the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Darby Translation
Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore will ye contend against me? all ye transgressed against me, says Jehovah.
King James 2000
Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me}," {declares} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
Why will you plead with Me? You all have sinned against Me, says Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore then will ye go to law with me, seeing ye all are sinners against me, sayeth the LORD?
NET Bible
"Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me," says the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
"Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, should ye plead against me, All of you, have transgressed against me Declareth Yahweh.
Webster
Why will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
"Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Interlinear
Pasha`
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
28 But where are thy gods that thou have 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. 29 Why will ye contend with me? Ye have all transgressed against me, says LORD. 30 In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places if it, if ye can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth, and I will pardon her.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest of them everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Daniel 9:11
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have s
Jeremiah 2:23
How can thou say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baalim? See thy way in the valley. Know what thou have done, a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
Jeremiah 2:35
Yet thou said, I am innocent. Surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou say, I have not sinned.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.