Jeremiah 2:17
Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God at that time, when he led thee by the way?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have deflowered thee, even to the crown of the head.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:
Deuteronomy 28:15But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,
Job 4:8On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
Psalms 77:20Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.
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 →