Jeremiah 2:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

lāmmāh tārîbû ʾēlāy kullkem pəšaʿtem bî nəʾum-YHWH

Grammar Details

*lāmmāh*: interrogative - why
*tārîbû*: imperfect Qal, 2nd masculine plural - you contend/strive
*ʾēlāy*: preposition with 1st singular suffix - with me
*kullkem*: masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine plural suffix - all of you
*pəšaʿtem*: perfect Qal, 2nd masculine plural - you have transgressed/rebelled
*bî*: preposition with 1st singular suffix - against me
*nəʾum*: masculine singular construct noun - declaration/oracle of
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD

Word Meanings

*lāmmāh*: why/for what reason
*tārîbû*: you contend/strive/dispute/bring charges
*pəšaʿtem*: you have transgressed/rebelled/revolted
*nəʾum*: declaration/oracle/utterance

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Referenced Verses

Jer 5:1 : 1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.
Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Dan 9:11 : 11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
Jer 9:2-6 : 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
Jer 2:23 : 23 How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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