16 Also, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    have cracked your skull.
17 Have you not brought this on yourselves
    by forsaking the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?
18 Now why go to Egypt
    to drink water from the Nile?[a]
And why go to Assyria
    to drink water from the Euphrates?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile