Jeremiah 2:14-19

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁴ Is Israel a slave?
Was he born into slavery?^[a]
Why else has he become a prey?
¹⁵ The young lions have roared at him;^(A)
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.^(B)
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
¹⁶ The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes^(C)
have also broken your skull.
¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourself^(D)
by abandoning the Lord your God
while he was leading you along the way?
¹⁸ Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt^(E)
to drink the water of the Nile?^[b]
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria^(F)
to drink the water of the Euphrates?^(G)
19 Your own evil will discipline you;^(H)
your own apostasies will reprimand you.
Recognize^[c] how evil and bitter^(I) it is
for you to abandon the Lord your God
and to have no fear of me.
This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.