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Jeremiah 2:13-18
New International Version
Jeremiah 2:13-18
New International Version
13 “My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken(A) me,
the spring of living water,(B)
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14 Is Israel a servant, a slave(C) by birth?
Why then has he become plunder?
15 Lions(D) have roared;
they have growled at him.
They have laid waste(E) his land;
his towns are burned(F) and deserted.(G)
16 Also, the men of Memphis(H) and Tahpanhes(I)
have cracked your skull.
17 Have you not brought this on yourselves(J)
by forsaking(K) the Lord your God
when he led you in the way?
18 Now why go to Egypt(L)
to drink water from the Nile[a]?(M)
And why go to Assyria(N)
to drink water from the Euphrates?(O)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile
Jeremiah 2:13-18
King James Version
Jeremiah 2:13-18
King James Version
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.
17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?
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