Jeremiah 2:29
Good News Translation
What is your complaint? Why have you rebelled against me?

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to Israel: You accuse me of not saving you, but I say you have rebelled.

New American Bible
Why are you arguing with me? You have all rebelled against me—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

will ye plead

Jeremiah 2:23,35 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. . . .

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

ye all have

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Jeremiah 9:2-6 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. . . .

Daniel 9:11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Context
Israel's Unfaithfulness
28Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda. 29Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.30In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:1
Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Daniel 9:11
And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Jeremiah 2:28
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