Jeremiah 2:17
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, at the time he was leading thee in the way?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Even the children of Noph and Tahapanes have fed on the crown of thy head.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
Deuteronomy 32:19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them;
Job 4:8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
Psalms 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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 →