Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Why will you plead with Me? You all have sinned against Me, says 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.

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 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 your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah. 29 Why will you plead with Me? You all have sinned against Me, says Jehovah. 30 In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.



Cross References

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her open places, if you can find a man, if there is one who does justice, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 6:13

For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Daniel 9:11

Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law, and turned aside, that they might not obey Your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crossing its ways;

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.

Jeremiah 9:2-6

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Romans 3:19

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

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