Jeremiah 2:18 - King James 2000

¹⁸ And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

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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?

Jeremiah 2:18 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

Isaiah 23:3

And by great waters the grain of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a marketplace of nations.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

Isaiah 7:20

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a hired razor, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why gad you about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall protect a man.

Lamentations 4:17

As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Ezekiel 16:28

You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 17:15

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

Ezekiel 23:30

I will do these things unto you, because you have played the harlot after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Joshua 13:3

From Sihor, which is east of Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ekronites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: