What Does Jeremiah 2:35 Mean?

“Yet thou sayest”

to say (used with great latitude)

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“Because I am innocent”

to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e., extirpated

a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only

“shall turn”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“surely his anger”

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

lo!; also (as expressing surprise) if

“from me Behold I will plead”

to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal

properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

“Yet thou sayest”

to say (used with great latitude)

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

“I have not sinned”

properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn