"Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?" — Jeremiah 2:17

Jeremiah 2:17 · KJV

“Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?”

— Jeremiah 2:17

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. {have...: or, feed on thy crown}

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?

Jeremiah 2 — Context

The young lions roared upon him, {and} yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. {yelled: Heb. gave out their voice}

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. {have...: or, feed on thy crown}

Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

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?

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that {it is} an evil {thing} and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear {is} not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

Cross References

Jeremiah 4:18

Thy way and thy doings have procured these {things} unto thee; this {is} thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

Jeremiah 2:19

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, {and} hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Leviticus 26:15-46

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, {but} that ye break my covenant:

Psalms 77:20

Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 107:7

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. {led: or, compassed}