Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of 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.
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.
Interlinear
Pasha`
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
28 And where are thy gods, that thou hast made to thyself? Let them arise, if they may save thee, In the time of thy vexation, For -- the number of thy cities have been thy gods, O Judah, 29 Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 30 In vain I have smitten your sons, Instruction they have not accepted, Devoured hath your sword your prophets, As a destroying lion.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1
Go to and fro in streets of Jerusalem, And see, I pray you, and know, And seek in her broad places, if ye find a man, If there be one doing judgment, seeking stedfastness -- Then am I propitious to her.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,
Daniel 9:11
and all Israel have transgressed Thy law, to turn aside so as not to hearken to Thy voice; and poured on us is the execration, and the oath, that is written in the law of Moses, servant of God, because we have sinned against Him.
Jeremiah 2:23
How sayest thou, 'I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,
Jeremiah 2:35
And thou sayest, 'Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, 'I have not sinned.'
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:2-6
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Romans 3:19
And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;