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Jeremiah 2:18

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18You won’t gain anything by going to Egypt 

to drink water from the Nile River. 

You won’t gain anything by going to Assyria 

to drink water from the Euphrates River. 

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And now what do you gain by going to Egypt

to drink the waters of the Nile?

Or what do you gain by going to Assyria

to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Now why go to Egypt

to drink water from the Nile?

And why go to Assyria

to drink water from the Euphrates?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now what will you gain

by traveling along the way to Egypt

to drink the water of the Nile?

What will you gain

by traveling along the way to Assyria

to drink the water of the Euphrates?

NLTNew Living Translation

“What have you gained by your alliances with Egypt

and your covenants with Assyria?

What good to you are the streams of the Nile

or the waters of the Euphrates River?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And now why do you go the way of Egypt

to drink the waters of the Shihor?

And why do you go the way of Assyria

to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

KJV 1900King James Version

And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?