Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

New American Standard Bible

“Why do you contend with Me?
You have all transgressed against Me,” declares the Lord.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why do you bring a case against Me?
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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Wherefore will ye plead
רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

References

Hastings

Sin

Context Readings

Israel Deserves To Be Punished

28 But where are thy gods that thou hast 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 Wherefore will 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.

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 thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

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

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse 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 canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away 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 bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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 what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

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