Jeremiah 2:18
Jeremiah 2:18 — The New International Version (NIV)
18 Now why go to Egypt
to drink water from the Nile?
And why go to Assyria
to drink water from the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 2:18 — English Standard Version (ESV)
18 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?
Jeremiah 2:18 — New Living Translation (NLT)
18 “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?
Jeremiah 2:18 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
18 And now why take the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of Sihor?
Or why take the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:18 — New Century Version (NCV)
18 It did not help to go to Egypt
and drink from the Shihor River.
It did not help to go to Assyria
and drink from the Euphrates River.
Jeremiah 2:18 — American Standard Version (ASV)
18 And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:18 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
18 And now, what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what hast thou to do with the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:18 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
18 You 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.
Jeremiah 2:18 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
18 Now what will you gain
by traveling along the way to Egypt
to drink the waters of the Nile?
What will you gain
by traveling along the way to Assyria
to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Jeremiah 2:18 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
18 What then 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?
Jeremiah 2:18 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
18 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?
Jeremiah 2:18 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
18 Why do you go to Egypt
to drink water from the Shihor River?
Why do you go to Assyria
to drink from the Euphrates River?
Jeremiah 2:18 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
18 “But now what are you doing on the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of the Nile?
Or what are you doing on the road to Assyria,
To drink the waters of the Euphrates?