Jeremiah 2:14-19

World English Bible

¹⁴ Is Israel a slave?
    Is he born into slavery?
    Why has he become a captive?
¹⁵ The young lions have roared at him and yelled.
    They have made his land waste.
    His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
¹⁶     The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
¹⁷ “Haven’t you brought this on yourself,
    in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,^[a] when he led you by the way?
¹⁸ Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor?
    Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?^[b]
19 “Your own wickedness will correct you,
    and your backsliding will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing,
    that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
    and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.