Jeremiah 2:14-19

Modern English Version

¹⁴ Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave?
    Why has he been plundered?
¹⁵ The young lions roared at him
    and roared loudly,
and they made his land a waste;
    his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
¹⁶ Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes
    have shaved the crown of your head.
¹⁷ Have you not brought this on yourself,
    in that you have forsaken the Lord your God
    when He led you in the way?
¹⁸ And now what are you doing in the way of Egypt,
    to drink the waters of the Nile?
Or what are you doing in the way of Assyria,
    to drink the waters of the River?
¹⁹ Your own wickedness will correct you,
    and your backslidings will reprove you.
Know therefore and see
    that it is an evil thing and bitter for you
to have forsaken the Lord your God,
    and the fear of Me is not in you,
    says the Lord God of Hosts.