Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
You have
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.
A Conservative Version
Why will ye contend with me? Ye have all transgressed against me, says 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.
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 Where then are thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. 29 Wherefore would ye contend with me? Ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah. 30 In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath 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 broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.
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.
Daniel 9:11
And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him.
Jeremiah 2:23
How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done a swift dromedary traversing her ways!
Jeremiah 2:35
And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn 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 heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.