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Jeremiah 2:18

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18Now why go to Egyptx

to drink water from the Nileb?y

And why go to Assyriaz

to drink water from the Euphrates?a

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Footnotes

  1. bHebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile

Cross references

  1. xSee Isa 30:2
  2. ySee Jos 13:3
  3. zSee 2 Ki 16:7; Hos 5:13; 7:11; 8:9
  4. aSee Isa 7:20

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?

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?