Jeremiah 2:18

Jeremiah 2:18

16 Also the people of¹ Noph and ^aTahpanhes
Have¹ broken the crown of your head.

17 ^aHave you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When ^bHe led you in the way?

18 And now why take ^athe road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of¹ ^bSihor?
Or why take the road to ^cAssyria,
To drink the waters of the River?

19 Your own wickedness will ^acorrect you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the¹ fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.

20 “For of old I have ^abroken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And ^byou said, ‘I will not transgress,’
When ^con every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, ^dplaying the harlot.

21 Yet I had ^aplanted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into ^bthe degenerate plant of an alien vine?

22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is ^amarked before Me,” says the Lord God.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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And now - What business hast thou there? Sihor - The Nile: it signifies black, called Melas by the Greeks, either from the blackness of the land it passed through, or of the soil it casts up. The waters - Here and by the same words before is meant, to seek help from either place. River - Euphrates, often called so by way of eminency.

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