39 Heb “What to you to the way.”
40 The introductory particle וְעַתָּה (vé’attah, “and now”) carries a logical, not temporal, connotation here (cf. 274 עַתָּה 2.b).
41 Heb “to drink water from the Shihor [a branch of the Nile].” The reference is to seeking help through political alliance with Egypt as opposed to trusting in God for help. This is an extension of the figure in 2:13.
42 Heb “What to you to the way.”
43 Heb “to drink water from the River [a common designation in biblical Hebrew for the Euphrates River].” This refers to seeking help through political alliance. See the preceding note.

In other versions

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?

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