Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with Me? contending with the Lord as though He had no right to punish them. Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the Lord, forsaking Him in rebellious wickedness.
Wherefore will ye plead with Me? contending with the Lord as though He had no right to punish them. Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the Lord, forsaking Him in rebellious wickedness.
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
Israel's sin and obstinacy under punishment 14 17. Co. points out that Jeremiah 2:13 connects naturally with Jeremiah 2:18. The cisterns from which Israel has sought water proving unavailable, she has...
_plead with me_ remonstrate against My wrath. For "plead" see on Jeremiah 2:9, and cp. Jeremiah 12:1....
E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37 TRANSLATION (29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have smitten your sons; they...
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? - i:e., contend with me for afflicting you (; .)...
JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...
WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? — The reply of the accuser to the false pleas of the accused. The transgression was too open to be glossed over. No plea was available but that of a full confession of...
לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
Why will (q) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. (q) As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident....
I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was red...
Jeremiah concludes here his previous subject: he says that the Jews gained nothing by alleging against God that they were innocent, and by thinking that they could by mere words escape his judgment, a...
Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...
WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME?.... 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...
_Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD._ Ver. 29. _Wherefore will ye plead with me?_] Putting me to my proofs. Is not the case clear enough? Will ye not...
_Wherefore will ye plead with me?_ Why do you insist upon your innocence? See Jeremiah 2:35. Why do you lay claim to my former promises, as if you had not forfeited your title to them by your sins? _I...
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 dark...
WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? YE ALL: q.d. You are all at my mercy, why will you contend? all this that I charge you with is clear and evident, and all makes against you, JEREMIAH 2:23,34. Wherefor...
Jeremiah 2:29 plead H7378 (H8799) transgressed H6586 (H8804) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 will ye plead -...
YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previously done...
Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
_How canst thou say, I am not polluted._ SELF-VINDICATING SINNERS REPROVED I. The self-vindicating ways of sinners. 1. Direct denial (Genesis 4:9). 2. Vain excuse (1 Samuel 15:13). 3. Hypocritical...
JEREMIAH 2:1 Israel’s Covenantal Adultery. These five related messages were probably delivered during Josiah’s reign (Jeremiah 3:6). Jeremiah declares that God’s chosen people commit spiritual adulter...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:28 LET THEM ARISE. God challenges the Israelites to have their helpless, lifeless gods save them. After all, they worship as many GODS as they have cities
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...
Daniel 9:11; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:35; Jeremiah 3:2; Jeremiah 5:1;...