Jeremiah 2:29
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Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:1
Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Daniel 9:11
And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.

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Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.

will ye plead

Jeremiah 2:23,35 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. . . .

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

ye all have

Jeremiah 5:1 Go about through the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and consider, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man that executeth judgment, and seeketh faith: and I will be merciful unto it.

Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Jeremiah 9:2-6 Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors. . . .

Daniel 9:11 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Context
Israel's Unfaithfulness
28Where are the gods, whom thou hast made thee? let them arise and deliver thee in the time of thy affliction: for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda. 29Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.30In vain have I struck your children, they have not received correction: your sword hath devoured your prophets, your generation is like a ravaging lion.…
Lexicon
Why
לָ֥מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

do you bring a case
תָרִ֖יבוּ (ṯā·rî·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend

against Me?
אֵלָ֑י (’ê·lāy)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

You have all
כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם (kul·lə·ḵem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

rebelled against Me,”
פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם (pə·ša‘·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6586: To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel

declares
נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5002: An oracle

the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


Additional Translations
Why do you bring a case against Me? You have all rebelled against Me,” declares the LORD.Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, said the LORD.

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

Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

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

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

Why will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

"Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me," says Yahweh.

Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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