29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.
29 "Why do you bring charges against me? You have all rebelled against me," declares the Lord.
29 "Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the Lord.
29 "What do you have against me, running off to assert your 'independence'?" God's Decree.
29 "Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me," says the Lord.
29 Why do you accuse me of doing wrong? You are the ones who have rebelled," says the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29
Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37
(Read Jeremiah 2:29-37)
The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him! The Lord was displeased with their confidences, and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.