Jérémie 2:35

35 Malgré cela, tu dis: Oui, je suis innocente! Certainement sa colère s'est détournée de moi! Voici, je vais contester avec toi, Parce que tu dis: Je n'ai point péché.

Jérémie 2:35 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 2:35

Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent
Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the adulterous woman, ( Proverbs 30:20 ) to whom the Jews are all along compared in this chapter; which shows the hardness of their hearts, and their impudence in sinning: surely his anger shall turn from me;
the anger of God, since innocent; or, "let his anger be turned from me", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; pleading for the removing of judgments upon the foot of innocency, which is pretended: behold, I will plead with thee;
enter into judgment with thee, and examine the case closely and thoroughly: because thou sayest, I have not sinned;
it would have been much better to have acknowledged sin, and pleaded for mercy, than to insist upon innocence, when the proof was so evident; nothing can be got by entering into judgment with God, upon such a foundation; and to sin, and deny it, is an aggravation of it: the denial of sin is a double sin, as the wise man says, whom Kimchi cites.

Jérémie 2:35 In-Context

33 Comme tu es habile dans tes voies pour chercher ce que tu aimes! C'est même au crime que tu les exerces.
34 Jusque sur les pans de ton habit se trouve Le sang de pauvres innocents, Que tu n'as pas surpris faisant effraction.
35 Malgré cela, tu dis: Oui, je suis innocente! Certainement sa colère s'est détournée de moi! Voici, je vais contester avec toi, Parce que tu dis: Je n'ai point péché.
36 Pourquoi tant d'empressement à changer ton chemin? C'est de l'Egypte que viendra ta honte, Comme elle est venue de l'Assyrie.
37 De là aussi tu sortiras, les mains sur la tête; Car l'Eternel rejette ceux en qui tu te confies, Et tu ne réussiras pas auprès d'eux.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.