Jeremiah 2:17
Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
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In Context
16Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
Deuteronomy 28:15But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 32:19And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:
Job 4:8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Psalms 77:20\77:19\Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:15-20
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what… Read the whole commentary →