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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29

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 yield to reason? See on Jeremiah 2:19 .

Ye all have transgressed against me.] And yet ye have the face to ask, as in Jeremiah 16:10, "What is our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord?" And to say, as in Hosea 12:8, "In all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me: that were sin." See there.

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