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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 2:35 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 2:35 |
Strong Concordance |
Yet thou sayest [0559], Because I am innocent [05352], surely his anger [0639] shall turn [07725] from me. Behold, I will plead [08199] with thee, because thou sayest [0559], I have not sinned [02398]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Jer 2:23, Jer 2:29). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Because I am innocent - Rather, But "I am innocent," or, "I am acquitted." Those blood-stains cannot be upon my skirts, because now, in king Josiah's days, the idolatry of Manasseh has been put away.
Shall turn from me - Or, has turned away "from me."
Plead - Or, enter into judgment. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Yet withal the people holds itself to be guiltless, and deludes itself with the belief that God's wrath has turned away from it, because it has for long enjoyed peace, and because the judgment of devastation of the land by enemies, threatened by the earlier prophets, had not immediately received its fulfilment. For this self-righteous confidence in its innocence, God will contend with His people (אותך for אתּך as in Jer 1:16). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Behold - I will proceed in my judgment against thee. Because - Because thou justifiest thyself. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Because I am innocent - They continued to assert their innocence, and therefore expected that God's judgments would be speedily removed!
I will plead with thee - I will maintain my process, follow it up to conviction, and inflict the deserved punishment. |
29 Wherefore will ye plead [07378] with me? ye all have transgressed [06586] against me, saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
23 How canst thou say [0559], I am not polluted [02930], I have not gone [01980] after [0310] Baalim [01168]? see [07200] thy way [01870] in the valley [01516], know [03045] what thou hast done [06213]: thou art a swift [07031] dromedary [01072] traversing [08308] her ways [01870];
16 And I will utter [01696] my judgments [04941] against them touching [05921] all their wickedness [07451], who have forsaken [05800] me, and have burned incense [06999] unto other [0312] gods [0430], and worshipped [07812] the works [04639] of their own hands [03027].