Jeremiah 2:17
Do you not do this to yourself? [By] your forsaking your God YHWH, || At the time He is leading you in the way?
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
16Also sons of Noph and Tahapanes || Consume you—the crown of the head!
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15and if you kick at My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments, so as not to do all My commands—to your breaking My covenant—
Deuteronomy 28:15And it has been, if you do not listen to the voice of your God YHWH, to observe to do all His commands and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these revilings have come on you and overtaken you:
Deuteronomy 32:19And YHWH sees and despises—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
2 Chronicles 7:19and if you turn back—you—and have forsaken My statutes and My commands that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them—then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,
Job 4:8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Psalms 77:20You have led Your people as 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 →