35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am guiltless, surely his wrath shall turn from me: behold, I will enter with thee into judgment, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

36 Why runnest thou about so much to change thy ways? for thou shalt be confounded of Egypt, [a]as thou art confounded of Assyria.

37 For thou shalt go forth from thence, and thine hands upon [b]thine head, because the Lord hath rejected thy confidence, and thou shalt not prosper thereby.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:36 For the Assyrians had taken away the ten tribes out of Israel, and destroyed Judah even unto Jerusalem: and the Egyptians slew Josiah, and vexed the Jews in sundry sorts.
  2. Jeremiah 2:37 In sign of lamentation, as 2 Sam. 13:19.

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