Jeremiah 2:13
English Standard Version
13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:14
English Standard Version
14 (A)“Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become a prey?
Jeremiah 2:17
English Standard Version
17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when (B)he led you in the way?
Jeremiah 2:18
English Standard Version
18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
to drink the waters of (B)the Nile?
(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
to drink the waters of (D)the Euphrates?[a]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River
Jeremiah 2:31
English Standard Version
31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?
Jeremiah 2:36
English Standard Version
36 (A)How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.