16 The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes(A)
have also broken your skull.
17 Have you not brought this on yourself(B)
by abandoning the Lord your God
while He was leading you along the way?
18 Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt(C)
to drink the waters of the Nile?[a]
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria(D)
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Lit of Shihor

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