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Jeremiah 2:29
Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Judah immediately after demanding their idols rise and save them in Jeremiah 2:28. He speaks at the moment their complaints about His discipline directly confront their actual covenant violation.
The words — תָרִ֖יבוּ (ta.Ri.vu) translates to "do you contend," and פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם (pe.sha'.Tem) means "you have rebelled." The text states these terms to frame Yahweh's response as a direct legal rebuttal to human accusation.
The thread — This pattern of collective rebellion and divine litigation runs through Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 6:13, and Daniel 9:11, where systemic transgression and covenant breaking are repeatedly documented.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to drop defensive arguments and recognize their own complicity in the covenant breach. It demands honest accounting of transgression before any appeal for mercy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 5:1 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.
- Jeremiah 6:13 “For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Daniel 9:11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
- Jeremiah 2:23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
- Jeremiah 2:35 you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
- Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Romans 3:19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.