Jeremiah 2:36

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34 Also on your skirts is found
^aThe blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by¹ secret search,
But plainly on all these things.

35 ^aYet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.’
Behold, ^bI will plead My case against you,
^cBecause you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

36 ^aWhy do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also ^byou shall be ashamed of Egypt ^cas you were ashamed of Assyria.

37 Indeed you will go forth from him
With your hands on ^ayour head;
For the Lord has rejected your trusted allies,
And you will ^bnot prosper by them.

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Jeremiah 2:36

To change thy way - The rival parties at Jerusalem looked one to Assyria, the other to Egypt, for safety. As one or other for the time prevailed, the nation "changed its way," sending its embassies now eastward to Nineveh, now westward to Memphis.

Thou also ... - literally, also of Egypt "shalt thou be ashamed." This was literally fulfilled by the failure of the attempt to raise the siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah 37:5.

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2 Kings 23:28
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