Jeremiah 2:29

29 Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me}," {declares} Yahweh.

Jeremiah 2:29 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29

Wherefore will ye plead with me?
&c.] Strive and contend, chide, murmur, and complain, when evil came upon them, as if the Lord dealt hardly with them, and as if they had never sinned against him; when their case would not bear to be brought into judgment and examined openly; what would they get by that but shame and disgrace? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord;
high and low, rich and poor, great and small; men of all ranks, degrees, and character; kings, priests and prophets; and therefore ought not to contend with God, and charge him with injustice or unkindness, but themselves with folly and wickedness.

Jeremiah 2:29 In-Context

27 [Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'

28 But where [are] your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For [according to] the number of your towns are your gods, [O] Judah.

29 Why do you complain to me? All of you have {rebelled against me}," {declares} Yahweh.

30 "For {in vain} I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion.

31 O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "broken with me"
• [b] Literally "a declaration of"