Jeremiah 2:18-20

New Living Translation

¹⁸ “What have you gained by your alliances with Egypt
    and your covenants with Assyria?
What good to you are the streams of the Nile^[a]
    or the waters of the Euphrates River?^[b]
19 Your wickedness will bring its own punishment.
    Your turning from me will shame you.
You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is
    to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear him.
    I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!

²⁰ “Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you
    and tore away the chains of your slavery,
but still you said,
    ‘I will not serve you.’
On every hill and under every green tree,
    you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.