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16 Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    will shave[a] your skull.[b]
17 Did you not do this to yourself,
    by forsaking Yahweh, your God,
    at the time of your leading in the way?
18 And now why do you go[c] the way of Egypt
    to drink the waters of the Shihor?
And why do you go[d] the way of Assyria
    to drink the waters of the Euphrates?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:16 Literally “pasture”
  2. Jeremiah 2:16 Or “crown of your head”
  3. Jeremiah 2:18 Literally “what for you”
  4. Jeremiah 2:18 Literally “what for you”
  5. Jeremiah 2:18 Literally “river”