Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the 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.
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.
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
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah. 29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord. 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Daniel 9:11
And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.
Jeremiah 2:23
How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
Jeremiah 2:35
And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Jeremiah 3:2
Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: