17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?
18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (D)the Nile?
(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (F)the Euphrates?[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (I)bitter
    for (J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

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