Jeremiah 2:18 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁸ 6 As the thief is confounded when he is taken, so is the house of Israel confounded, they and their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And now what have you to gain by allying yourself with Egypt and going her way, to drink the [black and roiled] waters of the Nile? Or what have you to gain in going the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

American Standard Version (1901)

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?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ So why take the path to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? Why travel the path to Assyria to drink water from the Euphrates?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And now what do you want from the way of Egypt, but to drink their turbid water? And what do you want from the way of the Assyrians, but to drink the water of their river?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the troubled water? And what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of the river?

Jeremiah 2:18 Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:16

1 And Achaz stripped the house of the Lord, and the house of the kings, and of the princes, and gave gifts to the king of the Assyrians, and yet it availed him nothing.

Isaiah 23:3

1 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Isaiah 31:1

And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose die is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 7:20

And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make haste to take away the prey.

Jeremiah 2:36

And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw,

Jeremiah 31:22

0 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that shall eat the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Lamentations 4:17

We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:6

4 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Ezekiel 16:28

6 Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou gavest them:

Ezekiel 17:15

3 On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches, and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof.

Ezekiel 23:30

8 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

Hosea 5:13

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Hosea 7:11

Israel hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.

Joshua 13:3

With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side.