Jeremiah 2:35 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁵ you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ Yet you keep saying, I am innocent; surely His anger has turned away from Me. Behold, I will bring you to judgment and will plead against you because you say, I have not sinned.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

Common English Bible

³⁵ you still insist, “I’m innocent; as a result he will turn his anger away from me.” Because you claim not to have sinned, I will pass judgment against you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ And you have said: 'I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.' Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: 'I have not sinned.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁵ And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgement, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.

Jeremiah 2:35 Cross References

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Isaiah 58:3

‘Why have we fasted, and thou seest it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and thou takest no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.

Jeremiah 16:10

“And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,

Jeremiah 2:29

“Why do you complain against me? You have all rebelled against me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:9

“Therefore I still contend with you, says the Lord, and with your children's children I will contend.

Jeremiah 25:31

The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, says the Lord.’

Ezekiel 17:20

I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;